Part 1 Getting started with Microsoft Azure
Before you dive into the deep end of Azure’s ocean of services, you need to get comfortable swimming in the shallow end. Azure can look enormous at first glance—with hundreds of services, countless acronyms, and enough regions across the world to make you dizzy—but the first steps are all about the basics. Once you know how the pieces fit together, you’ll see that the platform is less of a maze and more of a toolbox.
In this part, we focus on laying that foundation. You’ll learn what Azure actually is, how cloud computing works (hint: no real clouds involved), and why companies large and small choose Azure for speed, scalability, and reliability. We’ll also get hands-on with the tools you’ll use every day—from the Azure Portal to the command-line interface (CLI) and PowerShell—and show you how to spin up resources with just a few clicks or commands.
From there, we’ll put Azure into action with a practical project. You’ll build a small application that pulls in images from email, processes them with Azure Functions, and stores them in Azure Blob Storage. Along the way, you’ll meet Azure Logic Apps, serverless computing, and the magic of resource groups—the kind of glue that holds your Azure projects together.