Summary
In this chapter, I shared with you some of my experiences working within IT and in noticing the fundamental shift from traditional infrastructure, on-premises programming done by experts, to a service model more widely accessible across a cloud network. The focus is less on making exclusive code and more on offering holistic end-to-end services. The marketplace is less about the individual, the supply chain, or specific customers, and is now open to anyone and everyone, at a global level.
We then looked at how to get started by creating a Microsoft 365 account, an MSDN subscription (where this is needed), and an Azure subscription. We looked at the current costs, advantages, and disadvantages, at the time of writing this book. We then took a deep dive into the Azure user interface to understand resources, resource groups, subscriptions, and the notion of a tenant.
Finally, I showed one object (deliberately not a logic app, as these will be covered in later chapters in some detail) and encouraged you to understand the common structure of the Azure resource object panes. I mentioned that an object is split into separate pages and that these pages are accessible via the leftmost blade. Each blade expands from left to right, and each section contains the stages to develop and customize the object further.
Now that you have an Azure account and are familiarizing yourself with the environment, in the next chapter, we will be looking at the resource group in further detail and considering how you can plan an enterprise environment within your tenant.