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June 10, 2026 AI 200 Azure AI Cloud Developer / Azure

AI 200 – Azure Container Apps Express: Blazing-Fast Deployments Without the Overhead

Azure Container Apps Express (Preview) is a brand-new, simplified deployment mode that auto-provisions its environment and gets your container live in under 3 minutes — but it’s not yet available in the main Azure Portal. Learn how to create and configure an Express App using the dedicated portal at containerapps.azure.com and Azure CLI, with a hands-on walkthrough covering image selection, scale (0–300 replicas), networking, and ingress.

June 3, 2026 AI 200 Azure AI Cloud Developer / Azure

AI-200 – Azure Container Registry – ACR Automatically Triggered Tasks

ACR Automatically Triggered Tasks connect Azure Container Registry directly to your Git repository — every code push fires a build automatically, no manual CLI commands required. In this hands-on lab, you will link ACR to an Azure DevOps repo, create a triggered task, and watch a container image build and push itself on every commit.

June 3, 2026 AI 200 Azure AI Cloud Developer / Azure

AI-200 – Azure Container Registry – ACR Quick Tasks Build Container Images Without Docker Desktop

ACR Quick Tasks lets you build and push container images to Azure Container Registry entirely in the cloud — no Docker Desktop required. In this hands-on lab, you will create a registry, write a Dockerfile, and run az acr build to see exactly how Azure handles the entire build pipeline for you.

June 3, 2026 Azure

AI 200 – ACR Tasks: Build and Push Container Images Without Docker Desktop

Azure Container Registry Tasks (ACR Tasks) is the cloud-native answer to one of the most common pain points in containerized development — inconsistent builds caused by different Docker Desktop versions across developer machines. With ACR Tasks, you offload the entire build, test, and push pipeline to Azure itself — no Docker installation required. This AI-200 certification guide covers Quick Tasks, Triggered Tasks, Multi-Step Tasks, Managed Identity authentication, and the best practices Microsoft expects you to implement for containerized AI workloads on Azure.

December 29, 2024 Azure

Azure – Assign API Permissions to Managed Identity using PowerShell

In this article, we will learn the basics of how to create the Managed Identity, different types of MI, how to assign them to Azure resources and then learnt what Microsoft Graph is, Install it and then develop PowerShell code to grant API permissions to the Manage Identity as the Portal doesn’t support this yet as of this writing.

December 29, 2024 Azure

Azure SQL Database – Configure Job using Elastic Agents

Azure SQL Database Elastic Jobs enable users to automate and schedule administrative tasks across multiple Azure SQL Databases. Tasks such as schema updates, and user management can be efficiently handled. Elastic Jobs provides a centralized mechanism for workload management, ensuring consistency and reducing manual effort.

December 27, 2024 Azure

Create Database-Scoped Users for Microsoft Entra Security Groups

In modern cloud environments, managing access to databases at scale can be challenging. By integrating Azure SQL with Microsoft Entra (formerly Azure Active Directory) Security Groups, you can streamline access control while ensuring secure and efficient database operations.

December 22, 2024 Azure / Azure DevOps

Azure Bicep Understanding Export and Import Attributes for Reusability

In this article, we are going to learn about the new feature of bicep called export and import attributes. Using this feature, we can reuse variables, types and functions.
Let’s get started learning about import and export attributes, it’s advantages with examples