Microsoft Azure Tutorial

Azure Foundations

1 Introduction to Cloud Computing 8 min 2 Introduction to Microsoft Azure 8 min 3 Azure Portal Tour 8 min 4 IaaS vs PaaS vs SaaS 8 min 5 Regions and Geography 8 min 6 Availability Zones 8 min 7 Resource Groups 8 min 8 Subscriptions and Billing Basics 8 min 9 Azure Pricing and Cost Awareness 8 min 10 Well-Architected Pillars 8 min

App Service & SQL

11 Prepare an ASP.NET Core API for Azure 8 min 12 App Service Plans Explained 8 min 13 Deploy Web App to App Service 8 min 14 App Settings and Connection Strings 8 min 15 Azure SQL Database Basics 8 min 16 Connect App Service to Azure SQL 8 min 17 Slot Swaps for Safer Releases 8 min 18 Custom Domains and TLS 8 min 19 Scale Up vs Scale Out 8 min 20 Production Checklist for App Service 8 min

Docker on Azure

21 Docker Basics for Azure 8 min 22 Images vs Containers 8 min 23 Dockerfile for ASP.NET Core 8 min 24 Multi-Stage Builds 8 min 25 Docker Compose Locally 8 min 26 Volumes and Config 8 min 27 Container Networking Basics 8 min 28 Container Security Basics 8 min 29 Push Image to ACR 8 min 30 Run Container on App Service 8 min

Containers & Kubernetes Basics

31 Azure Container Registry Overview 8 min 32 Image Tags and Retention 8 min 33 ACR Authentication Options 8 min 34 Kubernetes Core Ideas 8 min 35 Pods and ReplicaSets 8 min 36 Deployments and Rollouts 8 min 37 Services and Ingress 8 min 38 ConfigMaps and Secrets 8 min 39 Persistent Volumes Overview 8 min 40 HPA Basics 8 min

AKS

41 AKS Cluster Overview 8 min 42 Node Pools 8 min 43 kubectl Essentials 8 min 44 Deploy to AKS 8 min 45 Ingress Controller Pattern 8 min 46 AKS Identity and RBAC 8 min 47 Cluster Autoscaling 8 min 48 AKS Monitoring Basics 8 min 49 Upgrade and Maintenance Notes 8 min 50 AKS Production Checklist 8 min

CI/CD

51 GitHub Actions for Azure 8 min 52 Azure DevOps Pipelines Overview 8 min 53 Build and Publish Artifacts 8 min 54 Deploy App Service from Pipeline 8 min 55 Blue-Green Concept 8 min 56 Canary Concept 8 min 57 Infrastructure Pipeline Basics 8 min 58 Rollback Playbook 8 min 59 Environment Promotion 8 min 60 Enterprise CI/CD Checklist 8 min

Monitoring

61 Azure Monitor Overview 8 min 62 Application Insights Setup 8 min 63 Log Analytics Queries 8 min 64 Distributed Tracing Basics 8 min 65 Metrics and Dashboards 8 min 66 Alerts and Action Groups 8 min 67 Availability Tests 8 min 68 Cost of Logging Too Much 8 min 69 Prometheus and Grafana Notes 8 min 70 Observability Checklist 8 min

Security

71 Microsoft Entra ID Basics 8 min 72 RBAC on Azure Resources 8 min 73 Managed Identities 8 min 74 Azure Key Vault Secrets 8 min 75 Secure App Settings Pattern 8 min 76 Network Security Groups 8 min 77 Private Endpoints Overview 8 min 78 Defender for Cloud Basics 8 min 79 Zero Trust Mindset 8 min 80 Security Hardening Pass 8 min

Serverless & Messaging

81 Azure Functions Basics 8 min 82 Durable Functions Overview 8 min 83 Logic Apps Overview 8 min 84 Event Grid Basics 8 min 85 Service Bus Queues and Topics 8 min 86 Storage Queues 8 min 87 Event-Driven Design 8 min 88 HTTP Triggered APIs 8 min 89 Workflow Automation Patterns 8 min 90 Serverless Production Notes 8 min

Platform Services

91 API Management Overview 8 min 92 Front Door Overview 8 min 93 Azure CDN Basics 8 min 94 Azure Cache for Redis 8 min 95 Storage Accounts Overview 8 min 96 Blob Storage Patterns 8 min 97 Cosmos DB Overview 8 min 98 Azure OpenAI Overview 8 min 99 Azure AI Services Overview 8 min 100 Choosing the Right Azure Service 8 min

Infrastructure as Code

101 Why Infrastructure as Code 8 min 102 ARM Templates Overview 8 min 103 Bicep Basics 8 min 104 Terraform on Azure Overview 8 min 105 Parameterizing Environments 8 min 106 Remote State and Secrets 8 min 107 Policy and Guardrails 8 min 108 Multi-Environment Deploy 8 min 109 Drift Detection Habits 8 min 110 IaC Team Checklist 8 min

Capstone Projects

111 E-Commerce on App Service Project 8 min 112 Banking API on AKS Project 8 min 113 Multi-Tenant SaaS Landing Zone Project 8 min 114 AI Analytics with OpenAI Project 8 min 115 Microservices on AKS Project 8 min 116 Notification System with Service Bus Project 8 min 117 Media Storage with Blob CDN Project 8 min 118 Healthcare Landing Zone Notes Project 8 min 119 ERP Integration APIM Project 8 min 120 CloudVerse Capstone Platform 8 min