🔷 Microsoft Azure

Learn Azure DevOps and cloud services for QA automation, pipelines, test environments, storage, monitoring and CI/CD workflows.

Learn Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, and Azure cloud services used in modern QA workflows — from test environment provisioning to CI/CD automation and test reporting.

What you can learn on this page

  • 🎯 What is Microsoft Azure? — Imagine a city that rents you apartments, offices, warehouses, and a whole road network — and you only pay for what you use each day. Microsoft Azure is that city for software: it rents you virtual computers, databases, networks, and software services by the h
  • ⚙️ Azure CLI Installation — Azure has two entry points: the Azure Portal (web UI at portal.azure.com) and Azure CLI (command-line tool). Think of the Portal as a car's dashboard and the CLI as the engine you control directly. For QA automation you need the CLI — it runs in scripts and pi
  • 🛠️ Real World — Azure in QA — Picture a QA team at a bank. They use Microsoft 365 for email, Teams for chat, Visual Studio for development — and Azure DevOps for test management. Everything is already in the Microsoft ecosystem. Adding Azure cloud for test environments means zero additiona
  • 🔗 Azure Ecosystem for QA — Azure services for QA work like a relay race: Azure DevOps starts the baton (triggers pipeline on code push), Azure Pipelines runs the first leg (builds and tests), Azure Container Instances sprints the second leg (runs test containers), and Azure Blob Storage
  • 🚨 Common Azure Errors — Azure errors tend to fall into 4 categories: (1) Authorization failed — RBAC role is missing, (2) Resource not found — wrong subscription or resource group, (3) Quota exceeded — subscription limits, (4) Name already taken — storage accounts and other resources
  • 💼 Azure Interview Questions