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Analytics
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Synapse workspace repository
A Synapse workspace repository is where a Synapse workspace saves its authoring artifacts when Git integration is enabled. Instead of every notebook, pipeline, SQL script, linked service, or dataset living only in the live workspace, the team works through branches, commits, pull requests, and a publish branch. That gives data engineers a familiar code-review...
Synapse Analytics
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Synapse Git repository, Synapse source control, Synapse code repository, workspace Git integration
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Analytics
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Databricks repo
A workspace Git integration, now called Git folders, for versioning notebooks and files used in Databricks development and CI/CD.
Databricks
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: Databricks Repos, Databricks Git folder, Azure Databricks Git folders, workspace Git folder
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Web
premium
App Service backup
An App Service feature for creating on-demand or scheduled backups of app content and supported configuration, with restore to an app or slot. It helps learners understand where the concept appears in Azure operations and what to verify before changing it.
App Service
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: app service backup, backup
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premium
Local Git deployment
Microsoft Learn describes Local Git deployment for App Service as a method for deploying code from a Git repository on a local computer to an app-hosted Git endpoint. It requires deployment credentials and Source Control Manager basic authentication. Operators should review it with the connected Azure resource settings.
App Service
intermediate
5 commands
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Web
premium
local.settings.json
Microsoft Learn describes local.settings.json as the Azure Functions local settings file that stores app settings and tool settings for local development. Values in this file are used only locally and must be added separately to the function app in Azure.
Azure Functions
intermediate
5 commands
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DevOps
premium
Pipeline in Azure DevOps
A pipeline in Azure DevOps is an automated build, test, and deployment workflow. Microsoft Learn describes Azure Pipelines as CI/CD for many languages, platforms, and targets, with YAML or classic definitions that connect source changes to repeatable delivery stages.
CI/CD
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Pipelines, ADO pipeline, Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline, YAML pipeline, Azure Pipeline, DevOps pipeline
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Management and Governance
premium
ARM template
An ARM template is a JSON file that describes the Azure infrastructure you want instead of listing every portal click or command needed to build it. You declare resources, properties, parameters, dependencies, and outputs, then Azure Resource Manager works out how to create or update the environment. Microsoft Learn anchors this term in ARM templates - Azure Resource Manager, but this field-manual definition is intentionally wider than an older short glossary entry because the page must teach what to inspect, what can break, who owns the decision, and which evidence.
Infrastructure as code
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: Azure Resource Manager template
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Analytics
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Data Factory Git integration
The source-control connection that lets Data Factory authoring use Azure Repos or GitHub branches instead of editing only the live factory mode.
Data integration and orchestration
Intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Data Factory Git integration, ADF Git integration, data factory git integration
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Deployment Center
Deployment Center is the Azure portal experience for configuring and reviewing App Service deployment sources, such as GitHub, Azure Repos, Bitbucket, local Git, and supported build providers.
Deployment
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: App Service Deployment Center, Azure Deployment Center, deployment center in App Service, continuous deployment center
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FTP deployment
FTP deployment is an Azure App Service deployment method where application files are uploaded to a web app through FTP or FTPS publishing endpoints. Teams use it to support simple or legacy file-based releases when a full CI/CD pipeline, container image, or ZIP deployment flow is not available. In daily Azure work, it shows up when engineers publish static content, migrate an older web app, recover a small site, rotate deployment credentials, or disable basic publishing after modernization. It is not source control, a build pipeline, a secure secret-management strategy, or the preferred deployment method for regulated production systems.
App Service deployment
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: FTPS deployment, App Service FTP deployment, FTP/S deployment
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Web
verified
OneDeploy
OneDeploy is the Azure App Service publish extension invoked through the Microsoft.Web sites extensions/onedeploy operation and surfaced by deployment tooling such as az webapp deploy. It sends a ZIP, WAR, JAR, EAR, startup script, or file package to an app or slot for publishing.
App Service
intermediate
6 commands
Aliases: App Service OneDeploy, az webapp deploy, Kudu publish API, App Service package deployment, OneDeploy
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DevOps
verified
Repository
In Azure DevOps, a repository is a Git source-control location that stores files, branches, commits, tags, and pull requests for a project. Azure Repos repositories can be created, imported, protected with policies, and used as the source for build and release pipelines. and delivery governance.
Source control
fundamentals
6 commands
Aliases: Azure Repos repository, Git repository, repo, source repository, Azure DevOps repo
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Analytics
field-manual-complete
Synapse Apache Spark notebook
A Synapse Apache Spark notebook is an interactive workbook for Spark code inside a Synapse workspace. Data engineers and analysts use cells to read data, transform it, visualize samples, and test logic before turning it into a scheduled job or pipeline step. The notebook itself is not the compute; it attaches to a Spark pool that runs the work. This makes it useful for exploration and production preparation, but it also needs source control, parameter discipline, access review, and cost awareness.
Azure Synapse Analytics
intermediate
6 commands
Aliases: Synapse Spark notebook, Apache Spark notebook in Synapse, Synapse notebook, Spark notebook
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Web
template-specs-upgraded
SCM site
The SCM site is the special App Service endpoint used by deployment and Kudu tooling.
App Service
intermediate
6 commands
Aliases: Kudu site, Advanced Tools site, App Service SCM endpoint, scm.azurewebsites.net, deployment endpoint
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Containers
field-manual-complete
Container Apps secret
Microsoft Learn describes Container Apps secrets as application-scoped values that can be stored directly or referenced from Azure Key Vault. Revisions can use them through environment variables, registry credentials, or scale rules, while managed identity controls access to Key Vault references. during application configuration and rotation.
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Container Apps secret, app-service-app-setting, client-secret, container apps secret, container-apps, container-apps-environment-variable, container-apps-revision, container-apps-secret, container-registry, keda, key-vault, key-vault-access-policy, managed-identity, secret
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Analytics
verified
Publish branch
A publish branch is the output branch for an Azure Data Factory Git-connected workspace.
Data engineering and analytics
intermediate
5 commands
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Management and Governance
verified
Resource group policy assignment
A resource group policy assignment applies an Azure Policy definition or initiative to one resource group so resources inside that group are audited, denied, modified, or remediated according to the assignment.
Azure Policy
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: policy assignment at resource group, Azure Policy resource group scope, resource group scoped policy, RG policy assignment, policy scope resource group
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DevOps
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GitHub Actions for Azure
GitHub Actions for Azure is the set of GitHub workflow patterns and Azure actions used to sign in, build, test, package, deploy, and manage Azure resources from a repository. Teams use it to connect source control to Azure deployments while keeping workflow steps, identities, approvals, and release evidence in versioned automation. In daily Azure work, it shows up when engineers use azure/login, deploy web apps or functions, run Azure CLI scripts, deploy Bicep, push containers, or configure OIDC federation.
CI/CD
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Azure GitHub Actions, Azure actions, azure/login, GitHub Actions for Azure
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Knowledge source
Knowledge source controls which indexed or remote content an agentic retrieval workflow can query before ranking and returning grounding material to an AI application. Teams see it in knowledge base definitions, azure ai search services. It is not a search index, data source connection, knowledge store, vectorizer, skillset, or generic document library; confusing them can create ungrounded answers, wrong content source. Use the term when reviewing access, monitoring, cost, recovery, or performance. It keeps architects, operators, security reviewers, and support teams focused on the same setting, resource, or behavior.
Azure AI Search
Intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure AI Search knowledge source, agentic retrieval knowledge source, indexed knowledge source, remote knowledge source
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Azure AI Search data source
Azure AI Search data source is the connection definition an Azure AI Search indexer uses to read content from a supported external data store.
AI platform and search
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Search data source, SearchIndexerDataSourceConnection, data source connection, indexer data source, search data source connection
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Security
premium
Data exfiltration control
A set of Azure controls that restrict, inspect, or approve where sensitive data can leave a workload, workspace, network, or tenant boundary.
Network and data protection
Intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: egress control, data exfiltration protection, approved outbound data boundary
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AI and Machine Learning
command-rich
Data source in AI Search
Data source in AI Search is documented by Microsoft as part of the Azure AI Search area in Azure.
Azure AI Search
intermediate
6 commands
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Containers
strict-validated
AKS control plane
The AKS control plane is the Azure-managed Kubernetes API and orchestration layer that coordinates cluster state, authentication, upgrades, and communication with worker nodes.
Azure Kubernetes Service
fundamentals
3 commands
Aliases: Kubernetes control plane, AKS managed control plane, AKS API server, managed Kubernetes API
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Analytics
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External data source
An External data source is a database object that defines the location and connection information used by SQL engines to access external data. Teams use it to point serverless SQL, dedicated SQL pools, or PolyBase-style queries to data stored outside the database, such as Azure Storage or Data Lake paths. It is not the external table schema, the file format definition, the storage account itself, or proof that the credential can read every file under the path.
Synapse SQL and data virtualization
intermediate
6 commands
Aliases: CREATE EXTERNAL DATA SOURCE, PolyBase external data source, Synapse external data source
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Containers
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AKS ingress controller
Microsoft Learn explains AKS ingress through Kubernetes ingress resources and controllers that route HTTP or HTTPS traffic to services in a cluster. AKS application routing options can configure ingress controllers, DNS integration, TLS handling, and related networking components for production applications.
AKS networking
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: AKS ingress, Ingress controller for AKS, Kubernetes ingress controller
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Analytics
premium
Data flow source
The mapping data flow transformation that reads input rows from a dataset or inline source before downstream transformations reshape the data.
Data Factory
Intermediate
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AI and Machine Learning
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Search data source
A search data source is an Azure AI Search indexer object that describes where external content comes from. It specifies the supported source type, connection information, credentials or identity, container or query, and sometimes change or deletion detection used by indexers.
Azure AI Search
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure AI Search data source, indexer data source, SearchIndexerDataSourceConnection, data source connection, Azure Search data source object
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Storage
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Access control list inheritance
ACL inheritance in ADLS Gen2 means new files and folders can receive default permissions from a parent directory. It is not a magic fix for existing data; changing a default ACL affects future children unless you also update existing paths.
Azure Storage
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: ACL inheritance
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Management and Governance
premium
Azure control plane
The Azure control plane is the part of Azure you use to manage resources rather than consume the application or data inside them. Microsoft Learn anchors this term in Azure control plane and data plane, but this field-manual definition is intentionally wider than an older short glossary entry because the page must teach what to inspect, what can break, who owns the decision, and which evidence proves the Azure environment is behaving as intended. In field use, start with the technical boundary: Technically, the Azure control plane is handled by.
Azure Resource Manager
intermediate
4 commands
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Web
premium
Functions scale controller
Functions scale controller is the Azure Functions component that watches trigger workload signals and decides how many app instances should run. Teams use it to match serverless capacity to event demand without manually adding workers for every queue, event stream, timer, or HTTP workload. In daily Azure work, it appears when engineers investigate backlog growth, explain unexpected scale-out, tune trigger concurrency, enable scale logs, or decide whether Premium capacity is necessary. It is not an application scheduler, a guaranteed throughput contract, a replacement for downstream capacity, or a setting that can fix inefficient function code by itself.
Azure Functions scaling
advanced
4 commands
Aliases: Azure Functions scale controller, scale controller, Functions autoscale controller
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Storage
learning-path-anchor
Data Lake storage account
A storage feature or access model in Data Lake Storage Gen2 that helps teams store, protect, move, and govern application or analytics data with clearer ownership, safety, and operational context.
Data Lake Storage Gen2
advanced
19 commands
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Analytics
learning-path-anchor
Synapse SQL script
A Synapse SQL script is a saved T-SQL authoring artifact in Synapse Studio. Users create or import scripts in the Develop hub, connect them to a dedicated or serverless SQL pool, run queries, review tabular results, export output, and organize scripts into folders.
Synapse Analytics
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: SQL script in Synapse, Synapse Studio SQL script, T-SQL script artifact, Synapse query script
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AI and Machine Learning
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System message
A system message is the instruction layer that tells an Azure OpenAI chat model how it should behave before it answers the user's request. It can define the assistant's role, tone, allowed sources, formatting rules, safety boundaries, and refusal behavior. It is stronger than an ordinary user message, but it is not magic and...
Azure OpenAI
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: system prompt, metaprompt, developer instruction, assistant instruction
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Databases
learning-path-anchor
Cosmos DB continuous backup
Azure Cosmos DB continuous backup is the backup mode that supports point-in-time restore for supported Cosmos DB resources within a configured retention tier.
Azure Cosmos DB
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Analytics
learning-path-anchor
Databricks metastore
The top-level Unity Catalog container for catalogs, schemas, tables, volumes, models, functions, and governance permissions.
Databricks
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Unity Catalog metastore, Databricks Unity Catalog metastore, metastore
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Analytics
learning-path-anchor
Databricks model serving
A managed serving endpoint pattern for exposing Databricks models or AI workloads for online inference with operational controls.
Databricks
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Databricks Model Serving, serving endpoint, model serving endpoint
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Analytics
learning-path-anchor
Databricks secret scope
A named Databricks collection of secrets used to store credentials and grant controlled read or manage access to workloads.
Databricks
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: Databricks secrets scope, secret scope, Azure Databricks secrets
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Integration
learning-path-anchor
Throughput unit
An Event Hubs throughput unit is a capacity setting in the Standard tier that controls how much ingress and egress a namespace can handle. Operators size TUs, enable Auto-inflate, and monitor throttling so event producers and consumers keep moving data without ServerBusy errors during traffic spikes.
Event Hubs
advanced
4 commands
Aliases: Throughput unit, throughput unit, Azure Throughput unit, Microsoft Learn Throughput unit, Event Hubs TU, TUs, Event Hubs throughput units, Auto-inflate capacity
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Databases
learning-path-anchor
Cosmos DB dedicated gateway
Azure Cosmos DB dedicated gateway is provisioned server-side compute that fronts an account and enables the integrated cache for supported NoSQL workloads.
Azure Cosmos DB
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Databases
learning-path-anchor
Cosmos DB emulator
The Azure Cosmos DB emulator provides a local environment that emulates Azure Cosmos DB for development and testing without requiring a cloud account.
Azure Cosmos DB
fundamentals
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Analytics
command-rich
Watermark column
In Azure Data Factory incremental copy patterns, a watermark column is a source column, often a last-modified timestamp or increasing key, used to identify rows created or changed since the previous run. The maximum value becomes the next stored watermark.
Data engineering and analytics
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: incremental copy watermark column, high watermark column, delta load column, LastModified watermark
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Databases
command-rich
Cosmos DB for Apache Cassandra
Azure Cosmos DB for Apache Cassandra is a managed NoSQL database service that supports Cassandra workloads using CQL, drivers, and compatible tooling.
Data platform
intermediate
4 commands
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Databases
command-rich
Cosmos DB for Apache Gremlin
Azure Cosmos DB for Apache Gremlin is a managed graph database service for storing, querying, and traversing graph data with the Gremlin language.
Data platform
intermediate
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Databases
command-rich
Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL is a managed PostgreSQL service with Citus distributed tables, currently on a retirement path and not recommended for new projects.
Data platform
intermediate
4 commands
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Databases
command-rich
Cosmos DB for Table
Azure Cosmos DB for Table is a managed NoSQL key-value and table API compatible with Azure Table storage SDKs and tools.
Data platform
intermediate
4 commands
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Azure OpenAI resource
An Azure OpenAI resource is the Azure control-plane boundary that hosts deployments, endpoints, access, networking, and billing context.
Azure OpenAI
fundamentals
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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
Scoring profile
A scoring profile is an Azure AI Search index setting that boosts ranking for matches that meet business rules. It can weight text fields or apply functions for freshness, distance, magnitude, or tags, and a query chooses one profile to influence returned order.
Azure AI Search
fundamentals
8 commands
Aliases: Azure AI Search scoring profile, search relevance profile, relevance scoring profile, scoringProfiles, boosting profile
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AI and Machine Learning
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Search analyzer
A search analyzer is the Azure AI Search text-processing component that breaks strings into searchable tokens during indexing and query execution. Built-in, language, or custom analyzers control tokenization, normalization, stemming, stop words, and other lexical behavior for searchable string fields.
Azure AI Search
fundamentals
8 commands
Aliases: Azure AI Search analyzer, text analyzer, search text analyzer, custom analyzer, language analyzer
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Databases
premium
Cosmos DB provisioned throughput
Cosmos DB provisioned throughput means the request-unit-per-second capacity reserved for a database or container, either manually or with autoscale behavior in Azure Cosmos DB. In plain English, it is the thing developers and operators check when they need to understand how data access really works. It connects the application model to capacity planning, throttling prevention, RU allocation, cost control, and predictable performance for operational workloads. For a production team, it turns vague database talk into a specific thing to inspect in the portal, SDK code, templates, metrics, and incident notes.
Azure Cosmos DB
intermediate
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