Cloud & DevOps
Learn Microsoft Azure
Azure is Microsoft's cloud platform. Instead of buying and maintaining servers, you rent compute, storage, databases and networking as services.
Why teams use it
- You can start small and scale without replacing your architecture.
- Managed services remove patching and backup work from your team.
- It fits naturally with .NET applications and existing Microsoft identity setups.
Where you will meet it
A .NET API in a container, a managed SQL database, and a secrets store is a very common Azure production footprint.
What to learn, and in what order
Work through these roughly in order. Jumping to the advanced list before the basics are solid is the most common way people get stuck.
Beginner
- What cloud computing means
- Regions and resource groups
- Compute, storage and networking basics
- Hosting a web application
Intermediate
- App Services and container hosting
- Managed databases
- Identity and access management
- Secrets and configuration
- Monitoring and logs
Advanced
- Cost management
- Networking and private access
- Infrastructure as code
Have a project worth talking through?
Tell us what you're building or what's slowing your current system down. We'll give you a direct read on scope and approach.