Welcome & Course Overview

Welcome to this course on Azure Fundamentals with Terraform and OpenTofu.
In this course, we focus on how Azure works from a real-world architecture perspective, not just as a list of services.
You will learn how to design and provision Azure infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code.
Instead of relying on the Azure Portal, we will build everything using Terraform and OpenTofu.

In the slides, we will walk through key ideas such as:
– how Azure organizes infrastructure (subscriptions, resource groups, regions),
– how to think in terms of control plane vs data plane,
– and why Infrastructure as Code is essential for real-world environments.

We will also introduce the concept of reusable modules as building blocks for platform design.
Each module in this course builds on top of the previous one, forming a complete Azure platform step by step.
This course is designed for engineers who want to move beyond basics and start building real-world systems.
By the end of this course, you will have a solid foundation for designing Azure environments using code.