Become an Azure Administrator — No Prior Cloud Experience Needed!

Welcome to CloudControl with Azure, a structured, hands-on learning series designed to help you confidently administer Microsoft Azure services. Whether you're a student, IT enthusiast, or transitioning professional, this repository simplifies Azure concepts through practical labs, real-world projects, and clear documentation.

• Beginner-Friendly: Start from scratch — no cloud background required.
• Hands-On Labs: Focus on doing, not just reading.
• Career-Oriented: Learn skills used in real-world Azure admin roles.
• Completely Free: Open-source under the MIT License.

Phase 1: Core Foundations → Phase 2: Networking, Security & Scalability → Phase 3: Identity, Automation & Serverless

🛠️ Skills: Cloud basics, Azure fundamentals

1. What is Cloud Computing?
2. Azure Global Infrastructure
3. Overview of Azure Services

🛠️ Skills: Azure structure & management layers
4. Azure Physical & Logical Architecture
5. Subscriptions, Management Groups & Resource Groups

🛠️ Skills: Build and understand virtual networks
6. IPv4 & Subnetting Basics
7. Create Virtual Networks (VNet)
8. Public vs. Private Subnets

🛠️ Skills: Manage Azure via command line
9. Introduction to Azure Cloud Shell
10. VM Deployment Using Azure CLI

🛠️ Skills: Design enterprise-grade networks
11. Hub & Spoke Architecture
12. VNet Peering (Intra- & Inter-region)
13. Site-to-Site VPN
14. Point-to-Site VPN

🛠️ Skills: Manage domains and optimize traffic
15. Azure DNS & Custom Domains
16. Azure Traffic Manager
17. Azure Front Door

🛠️ Skills: Secure your Azure environment
18. Network Security Groups (NSG)
19. Application Security Groups (ASG)
20. Azure Firewall
21. Application Gateway & Azure WAF

🛠️ Skills: Improve availability and performance
22. Azure Load Balancer
23. Application Gateway with WAF
24. Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS)

🛠️ Skills: Manage users and identities
25. Azure AD & Microsoft 365 Integration
26. Azure AD Connect (Sync)
27. Secure Secrets with Key Vault

🛠️ Skills: Store and manage data
28. Azure Storage Accounts
29. Azure SQL
30. Azure Database for MySQL

🛠️ Skills: Automate workloads and host applications
31. Azure App Services
32. Automation Accounts
33. Azure Backup & Recovery Vault
34. Azure Site Recovery (ASR)

🛠️ Skills: Build event-driven systems
35. Introduction to Serverless in Azure
36. Azure Functions & Event Triggers

• Phase 1: Deploy and secure a VM using Azure CLI and custom VNet
• Phase 2: Create a hub-and-spoke network with App Gateway & WAF
• Phase 3: Deploy a serverless app with Functions + Storage trigger

• Azure Free Tier account – Create one
• Basic familiarity with terminal/command-line

git clone https://github.com/kala-techies/CloudControl-with-Azure.git
cd CloudControl-with-Azure

• Each module includes markdown instructions and scripts (if applicable).
• Follow the recommended sequence in each phase folder.

To maintain a clean and meaningful commit history, follow Conventional Commits:

type: short summary of your change

• feat: New feature (e.g., feat: add VM creation script)
• fix: Bug fix (e.g., fix: correct subnet range in VNet)
• docs: Documentation changes (e.g., docs: update README links)
• style: Code formatting, no logic change
• refactor: Code refactoring
• test: Add or update tests
• chore: Maintenance tasks (e.g., dependencies, configs)

✅ Examples: feat: add Phase 2 VNet peering lab docs: fix CONTRIBUTIONS.md link

• Want to contribute? Please read the CONTRIBUTIONS.md
• Be respectful. See our CODEOFCONDUCT.md

• 📧 Email: connectwithkala18@gmail.com