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Containers
premium
AKS horizontal pod autoscaler
The AKS Horizontal Pod Autoscaler is the Kubernetes HPA capability used in AKS to automatically change the number of pod replicas for a workload based on observed metrics such as CPU, memory, or custom metrics.
Azure Kubernetes Service scaling
intermediate
3 commands
Aliases: HPA on AKS, horizontal pod autoscaler, Kubernetes HPA, pod autoscaling
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Containers
premium
Azure Kubernetes Service
Azure Kubernetes Service is Azure’s managed Kubernetes service for deploying, scaling, and operating containerized applications while Azure manages much of the cluster control plane.
Managed Kubernetes
advanced
6 commands
Aliases: AKS, managed Kubernetes
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Databases
premium
Azure SQL service objective
An Azure SQL service objective is the named performance level or SKU selected for an Azure SQL Database or elastic pool, defining resource limits, capabilities, and price within the chosen purchasing model.
Azure SQL Database
intermediate
4 commands
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Containers
field-manual-complete
Kubernetes Service
Microsoft Learn explains that Kubernetes Services in AKS expose applications through service types such as ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer, and ExternalName. LoadBalancer Services can create Azure load balancer resources, while internal load balancers use private IP addresses for restricted access. in production AKS clusters.
Kubernetes networking
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Kubernetes Service, aks-cluster, aks-ingress-controller, aks-network-policy, azure-kubernetes-service, ingress, kubernetes service, kubernetes-deployment, kubernetes-namespace, kubernetes-service, load-balancer, load-balancer-backend-pool, node-pool
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Azure OpenAI Service
Azure OpenAI Service provides managed access to OpenAI model capabilities through Azure endpoints and enterprise controls.
Generative AI
fundamentals
11 commands
Aliases: Azure OpenAI
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Azure AI Search service
Azure AI Search service is the Azure resource that hosts Azure AI Search indexes, indexers, skillsets, keys, capacity, networking, and query endpoints.
AI platform and search
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: AI Search resource, AI Search service, Azure Search service, Search service, search service
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Azure AI services
Azure AI services is the family of Azure cloud AI APIs and resources, surfaced through Foundry Tools, for vision, speech, language, translation, content, and generative scenarios.
AI services
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: AI services, Azure AI services account, Cognitive Services, Foundry Tools
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Azure AI services account
An Azure resource that provides endpoints, keys, identity, networking, billing, and monitoring for one or more Azure AI service capabilities.
Azure AI services
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: AI services account, Azure AI multi-service resource, Foundry resource, Microsoft.CognitiveServices account
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Hybrid and Multicloud
premium
Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes
An Azure Arc capability that connects Kubernetes clusters running anywhere to Azure for centralized management, governance, security, and application operations.
Hybrid management
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: Arc-enabled Kubernetes, Azure Arc Kubernetes, connected Kubernetes cluster
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Containers
premium
Kubernetes Deployment
A Kubernetes Deployment is a workload controller that declaratively manages ReplicaSets and pods for stateless applications.
Kubernetes workloads
Intermediate
6 commands
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Containers
premium
Kubernetes StatefulSet
A Kubernetes StatefulSet is a workload controller for stateful applications that require stable network identities, ordered deployment or scaling, and persistent storage per replica.
Kubernetes workloads
Advanced
5 commands
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Web
premium
App Service
Azure App Service is a managed HTTP-based platform for hosting web apps, REST APIs, and mobile back ends without managing the underlying servers. It helps learners understand where the concept appears in Azure operations and what to verify before changing it.
App Service
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: App Service, app service
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Compute
premium
Azure Functions
Azure Functions is Azure serverless compute for running code from triggers such as HTTP requests, queues, timers, events, and service integrations without managing servers.
Serverless compute
intermediate
6 commands
Aliases: Functions, Function App, serverless functions
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Hybrid and Multicloud
premium
Azure Local
Azure Local is Microsoft’s distributed infrastructure solution that extends Azure capabilities to customer-owned environments for local VMs, containers, and selected Azure services through Azure Arc.
Distributed infrastructure
advanced
6 commands
Aliases: Azure Stack HCI, Azure Local infrastructure, Arc-enabled local infrastructure
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Web
premium
Service Bus trigger
Service Bus trigger is an Azure Functions binding that starts function execution when a message arrives on a Service Bus queue or topic subscription. It connects the Functions runtime to Service Bus, supports queue, topic, and session scenarios, and uses app settings or identity-based connections for access.
Azure Functions
intermediate
6 commands
Aliases: Azure Functions Service Bus trigger, ServiceBusTrigger, Service Bus queue trigger, Service Bus topic trigger
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DevOps
premium
Service connection
Service connection is an Azure DevOps project resource that stores how a pipeline authenticates to Azure or another external service. In Azure Resource Manager connections, it can use workload identity federation, a managed identity, or a service principal so pipeline tasks can deploy safely.
CI/CD
fundamentals
6 commands
Aliases: Azure DevOps service connection, service endpoint, Azure Pipelines service connection, Azure RM service connection
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Web
premium
App Service restore
App Service restore is recovering App Service content and supported configuration from an app backup, usually by overwriting an app or restoring into another app or deployment slot. Use it to reason about App Service behavior, validate configuration with CLI, and prevent hidden production impact from networking, scaling, recovery, security, or observability changes.
App Service Recovery
intermediate
5 commands
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Web
premium
App Service scale rule
App Service scale rule is an autoscale rule or automatic scaling configuration that changes App Service capacity when metric thresholds, schedules, or platform load signals require more or fewer instances. Use it to reason about App Service behavior, validate configuration with CLI, and prevent hidden production impact from networking, scaling, recovery, security, or observability changes.
App Service Scaling
intermediate
5 commands
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Web
premium
App Service Windows worker
App Service Windows worker is a Windows-based worker instance in an App Service plan that runs Windows App Service apps and shares compute with other apps placed in the same plan. Use it to reason about App Service behavior, validate configuration with CLI, and prevent hidden production impact from networking, scaling, recovery, security, or observability changes.
App Service Platform
intermediate
5 commands
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Databases
premium
Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server
A fully managed Azure database service for MySQL workloads with configurable compute, storage, backups, networking, maintenance, and high availability options.
Managed MySQL
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: MySQL Flexible Server
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DevOps
premium
Azure DevOps organization
The top-level Azure DevOps Services container that connects related projects, users, repositories, pipelines, artifacts, permissions, and organization settings.
Azure DevOps
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure DevOps org
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DevOps
premium
Azure DevOps project
A workspace inside Azure DevOps for a team to plan, track, code, build, test, deploy, and collaborate on software delivery.
Azure DevOps
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: ADO project
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Databases
premium
Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database is a fully managed relational database service in Azure that provides SQL Server-compatible engines as single databases, elastic pools, and serverless or provisioned compute choices. Microsoft Learn presents it as platform as a service with built-in availability, backups, patching, scaling, and security integration.
Database
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL DB, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL pooled database, Azure SQL single database, SQL Database
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Databases
premium
Azure SQL elastic pool
Azure SQL elastic pool lets multiple Azure SQL databases on one logical server share a set of resources at a set price for variable usage patterns.
Azure SQL Database
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure SQL elastic pool, SQL elastic pool, eDTU pool, elastic pool, pooled databases
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Databases
premium
Azure SQL hyperscale
Azure SQL Database Hyperscale is a service tier built for very large databases, fast storage scaling, rapid backups and restores, and high throughput. Microsoft Learn describes its distinct architecture, including separated compute and storage, page servers, log service, and optional replicas.
Azure SQL Database
fundamentals
5 commands
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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
premium
Azure Virtual Desktop
Azure Virtual Desktop is a desktop and app virtualization service that runs on Azure, delivering Windows desktops and RemoteApp experiences with host pools, session hosts, and flexible control.
Virtual desktops
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: AVD
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Containers
premium
Kubernetes DaemonSet
A Kubernetes DaemonSet is a workload controller that ensures a copy of a pod runs on selected nodes, commonly for logging agents, monitoring collectors, security agents, and node-level services.
Kubernetes workloads
Intermediate
5 commands
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Containers
premium
Kubernetes Persistent Volume
A Kubernetes Persistent Volume is cluster storage provisioned for pods and bound through persistent volume claims so data can outlive individual pod restarts, rescheduling, or replacements.
Kubernetes storage
Intermediate
5 commands
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Containers
premium
Kubernetes StorageClass
A Kubernetes StorageClass defines how persistent storage is dynamically provisioned for persistent volume claims, including the driver, performance tier, reclaim policy, and binding behavior.
Kubernetes storage
Intermediate
5 commands
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Containers
premium
Kubernetes Version
Kubernetes Version is the control plane and node version level that determines supported Kubernetes APIs, feature availability, security patches, and upgrade requirements for a cluster.
AKS lifecycle
Intermediate
5 commands
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Search service
An Azure AI Search service is the provisioned Azure resource that hosts indexes, indexers, skillsets, query APIs, keys, networking, replicas, partitions, and monitoring settings. It is the management and data-plane boundary for building searchable content and retrieval experiences. and governance reviews.
Azure AI Search
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure AI Search service, search resource, search endpoint, Microsoft.Search search service, managed search service
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Agent service
Agent service is Microsoft Foundry Agent Service, a managed platform for building, deploying, and scaling AI agents. In everyday Azure work, teams use it to create prompt agents, workflow agents, or hosted code-based agents that use models and tools to perform tasks. The useful evidence is project, agent ID, instructions, model, tool configuration, deployment type,
Microsoft Foundry
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Microsoft Foundry Agent Service, Foundry Agent Service, Azure AI agent service
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Web
premium
App Service plan scale out
App Service plan scale out increases the number of worker instances running apps in an App Service plan, either manually or through scaling rules where supported.
App Service scaling
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Azure App Service plan scale out, app service plan scale out
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Web
premium
App Service plan scale up
App Service plan scale up is changing an App Service plan to a larger, smaller, or more capable pricing tier so the hosted apps receive different CPU, memory, feature support, and platform limits. Use it to reason about App Service behavior, validate configuration with CLI, and prevent hidden production impact from networking, scaling, recovery, security, or observability changes.
App Service
intermediate
4 commands
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Web
premium
App Service SKU
App Service SKU is the pricing tier and size selected for an App Service plan, which determines available compute resources, feature support, scale limits, and billing behavior. Use it to reason about App Service behavior, validate configuration with CLI, and prevent hidden production impact from networking, scaling, recovery, security, or observability changes.
App Service Plans
intermediate
4 commands
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Web
premium
App Service worker count
App Service worker count is the number of worker instances allocated to an App Service plan, which determines how many copies of hosted apps run across the plan capacity. Use it to reason about App Service behavior, validate configuration with CLI, and prevent hidden production impact from networking, scaling, recovery, security, or observability changes.
App Service Scaling
intermediate
4 commands
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Hybrid and Multicloud
premium
Azure Arc
A hybrid and multicloud management platform that extends Azure governance, security, operations, and services to resources running outside Azure.
Hybrid management
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: Arc, Arc-enabled infrastructure, Azure Arc hybrid management
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Containers
premium
Azure CNI
An AKS networking approach where CNI plugins assign pod addresses, route pod traffic, and integrate Kubernetes networking with Azure virtual networks.
Kubernetes networking
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: Azure Container Networking Interface
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Containers
premium
Azure CNI Overlay
An AKS networking mode that assigns pods private overlay CIDR addresses while nodes use VNet IPs, conserving subnet address space.
Azure Kubernetes Service
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: AKS overlay networking
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Storage
premium
Azure Container Storage
A cloud-based volume management, deployment, and orchestration service built natively for containers and integrated with Kubernetes persistent volumes.
Container storage
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: ACS for containers
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DevOps
premium
Environment in Azure DevOps
An Azure DevOps environment is a logical collection of resources that a pipeline can target for deployments, approvals, checks, and deployment history.
Azure Pipelines
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: environment in azure devops
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Integration
premium
Service Bus Premium
Service Bus Premium is the Azure Service Bus offering for mission-critical brokered messaging with dedicated resources called messaging units. It provides stronger isolation, predictable throughput, Premium-only features such as private endpoints and full JMS 2.0 support, and scaling options for production namespaces.
Service Bus
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: Azure Service Bus Premium, Premium Service Bus, Service Bus Premium Messaging
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Integration
premium
Service Bus premium tier
The Service Bus premium tier is the namespace pricing and capability tier that allocates dedicated messaging units to Azure Service Bus. It is chosen for production scenarios that need resource isolation, predictable capacity, private networking, full JMS support, Premium metrics, and advanced resiliency options.
Messaging
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: Azure Service Bus Premium tier, Premium messaging tier, Service Bus SKU Premium
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Storage
learning-path-anchor
Table service endpoint
A Table service endpoint is the address your application uses when it talks to Azure Table Storage. For a normal Azure Storage account, it looks like an account-specific table URL. That address is not just a string in a connection setting; it determines DNS resolution, firewall evaluation, private endpoint routing, TLS, SDK configuration, and what operators test during an outage. If the endpoint is wrong, the table might exist and credentials might be valid, but clients still fail to connect.
Table Storage
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Table endpoint, Table Storage endpoint, storage table endpoint, Table data-plane endpoint
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Containers
premium
AKS Azure Policy add-on
The AKS Azure Policy add-on integrates Azure Policy with an AKS cluster so policy assignments can audit or enforce Kubernetes rules through in-cluster policy components and report compliance back to Azure Policy.
Azure Kubernetes Service
intermediate
3 commands
Aliases: Azure Policy add-on for AKS, AKS policy add-on, Gatekeeper add-on, Azure Policy for Kubernetes
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Databases
premium
Azure SQL logical server
An Azure SQL logical server is a logical administrative construct for Azure SQL Database and related SQL resources. Microsoft Learn describes it as the central point for managing a collection of databases, including logins, firewall rules, auditing, threat detection policies, and failover groups.
Azure SQL Database
fundamentals
16 commands
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Containers
field-manual-complete
Kubernetes Namespace
A Kubernetes Namespace is a logical boundary used to organize namespaced resources, separate teams or environments, and apply scoped policy, access, and quota controls inside a cluster.
Kubernetes organization
Beginner
5 commands
Aliases: Kubernetes Namespace, kubernetes-namespace, azure-kubernetes-service, kubernetes-deployment, kubernetes-service, aks-network-policy, rbac, image-pull-secret, pod, kubeconfig, node-pool, resource-group, aks-cluster
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Containers
strict-validated
AKS service mesh
AKS service mesh is a service-to-service traffic layer for AKS workloads, commonly delivered through the Istio-based add-on for traffic management, mTLS, and telemetry.
AKS networking
Advanced
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Kubernetes Service service mesh, aks service mesh
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Web
strict-validated
Free App Service tier
The Free App Service tier is an App Service plan SKU for experimentation on shared infrastructure with limited features and no dedicated compute charge.
App Service plan tiers
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: App Service Free tier, F1 App Service tier, Free F1 plan
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Web
complete
Standard App Service tier
Microsoft Learn describes App Service plan tiers as the compute and feature boundary for apps hosted in Azure App Service. The Standard tier is a production-oriented tier that supports capabilities such as custom domains, TLS, autoscale, deployment slots, and larger dedicated capacity than entry-level tiers.
App Service plans
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: standard-app-service-tier, Standard App Service tier, App Service Standard tier, Standard App Service plan, S1 App Service plan, S2 App Service plan
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