Azure Fundamentals
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Navigating the Azure Portal
The Azure portal is a web-based console for creating, managing, and monitoring Azure resources. Learning a few navigation patterns makes the portal much easier to use.
Posts
Start with the six-part Azure Fundamentals learning path. Each post builds on the previous topic and includes links to official Microsoft documentation.
Azure Fundamentals
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Azure Resource Providers
Azure Resource Manager uses resource providers to connect management operations to Azure services. You see their names in resource IDs, templates, policies, logs, and error messages.
Azure Fundamentals
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Azure Regions and Availability Zones
Azure resources are deployed in locations around the world. Understanding regions and availability zones helps you choose where a workload runs and how it can handle local failures.
Azure Fundamentals
Practice lab
Create an Azure Resource Group with Terraform
In this lab, you create an Azure resource group with Terraform. The configuration is small, reusable, and available as a download.
Azure Fundamentals
Practice lab
Create an Azure Resource Group in the Azure Portal
In this lab, you create a resource group in the Azure Portal, confirm its settings, and delete it when the test is complete.
Azure Fundamentals
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What Is an Azure Resource Group?
An Azure resource group is a logical container for resources that you want to manage together. It helps organize an Azure solution by project, environment, workload, or lifecycle.
Azure Fundamentals
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Azure Tenants and Microsoft Entra ID
A Microsoft Entra tenant is the identity directory used by an organization. It contains the identities that sign in to Microsoft cloud services and can receive access to Azure resources.
Azure Fundamentals
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What Is an Azure Subscription?
An Azure subscription is one of the first concepts you need to understand before creating resources in Microsoft Azure. It connects your Azure resources to access control, costs, quotas, and governance.