32 posts tagged with "Azure"

You want to learn Azure, but the sheer number of services — over 200 — makes it feel like staring at a wall of fog. Where do you start? What do you skip? When are you ready for a certification? This roadmap gives you a structured 6-month plan that takes you from absolute beginner to Azure Solutions Architect level, with weekly goals, monthly checkpoints, certification guidance, and links to every Azure post we have published on Goel Academy. Print this page, pin it to your wall, and check things off as you go.

Interviews for cloud engineering roles have shifted from "what is a virtual machine" to "design a multi-region disaster recovery architecture with sub-15-second RTO." This post covers 50 questions across three difficulty levels with concise answers and key CLI commands. Whether you are preparing for your first cloud role or aiming for a senior architect position, these questions reflect what real hiring managers actually ask.

Your application works. It passes all tests. Then it goes live and users in Singapore see three-second load times, your database CPU sits at 85% from repeated identical queries, and your static assets are served from a single region. Performance is not a feature you bolt on later — it is an architecture decision you make early. Azure offers a full stack of acceleration services, from edge CDN caching to in-memory data stores to global load balancing. Here is how to use each one and when they overlap.

You have 40 servers in your on-premises data center, 15 VMs running in AWS, a Kubernetes cluster in GCP, and your Azure environment. Four different management consoles. Four different patching workflows. Four different places to check compliance. Azure Arc collapses all of that into a single pane of glass — the Azure portal — by projecting non-Azure resources as first-class Azure resource objects. No migration required. No re-platforming. Just extend Azure's management plane to wherever your infrastructure lives.

Your organization decided to standardize on Terraform. Great choice. But you have 200 CloudFormation stacks in AWS and 150 ARM template deployments in Azure that are running production workloads right now. You cannot delete them and start over. You need a migration strategy that moves infrastructure under Terraform management without downtime, without recreating resources, and with a rollback plan if things go sideways.

Bicep is Azure-native. Terraform is cloud-agnostic. If your organization lives entirely in Azure, Bicep is a strong choice. But the moment you manage resources across AWS, GCP, or even GitHub repositories, Terraform becomes the lingua franca that your platform team actually standardizes on. This post covers everything you need to run Terraform on Azure in production — authentication, core resources, remote state, modules, and CI/CD pipelines that plan on pull requests and apply on merge.