Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition

Azure has a lot of moving parts; this book makes the first steps more manageable by organizing them into 21 focused lessons. In Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition, Iain Foulds pairs explanations with hands-on labs, helping readers connect cloud concepts to the work of building and running applications.

Learn Azure by doing

The lessons begin with the Azure platform and a learning environment, then move into services developers encounter when deploying applications. You’ll explore virtual machines, web apps, storage, and networking, with practical exercises that let you try the ideas rather than leave them at the level of description.

From core services to broader Azure skills

Alongside the fundamentals, the second edition addresses subjects including securing applications and data, automating an environment, containers, machine learning services, and Azure Kubernetes Service. The material is aimed at readers who can already write and deploy simple web or client/server applications and want a structured way to extend that experience into Azure.

Short lessons, hands-on labs

The book’s lunch-sized format gives readers a clear unit of study at a time. Each lesson includes a lab, making it easier to put a concept into practice and build familiarity with Azure’s tools and services as you go.

Build a practical foundation

For developers getting started with Microsoft’s cloud platform, this second edition offers a guided route through key Azure concepts and application-focused tasks—one lesson, and one practical step, at a time.