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Free Azure Cloud Engineering Bootcamp

Learn Azure.
Build something real.

From your first cloud concept to a portfolio you can explain. Follow 42 free classes, practise as you go, and build with Azure, infrastructure as code, and pipelines.

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Class 01 · A lesson preview

What is cloud?

You rent the infrastructure. You keep responsibility for your data and identities. Start by knowing which side of the line you own.

Microsoft managesThe infrastructureDatacenters · physical hosts · physical networks
You remain responsible forYour data & identitiesData protection · user accounts · access controls
Read. Practise. Then build.Explanations and drills are included in the class.Open Class One

The lessons are free. Deploying resources in your own Azure subscription can incur charges.

Classes
42from foundations to portfolio
Builds
74 milestones · 3 capstones
Drills
245+answers with reasoning
Reading access
$0every class is open
Watch the 39-second introduction

Written course overview: The free curriculum moves from Azure foundations through infrastructure, automation, operations, and portfolio projects. Every class is open to read; an account is optional for saved progress. Azure lab resources can incur charges. This is a summary, not a transcript of the video. Captions are not yet available.

01 — The premise

We marked up the job posting first. The course came second.

An illustrative role brief maps practical Azure responsibilities to the classes where you build them. The circled skills connect infrastructure to a repeatable deployment process.

Cloud Engineer (Azure)

Illustrative role brief · Not a current job opening
Azure core services: compute, networking, storage, identityClasses 1–16
Infrastructure as Code, Terraform or BicepClasses 20–21
CI/CD pipelines, GitHub ActionsClasses 17–24
Scripting: PowerShell, Azure CLI or PythonClass 25
Monitoring: Azure Monitor, KQLClasses 28–30
Security: Key Vault, RBAC, least privilegeClasses 8 · 9 · 31
Cost optimisation preferredClass 32
AI workload deployment a plusClasses 33–35

Build it, then explain the choices you made.

Already certified? Start at the lines you're failing.

17Git, properly 20Infrastructure as Code 22CI/CD with Actions

Foundations stay open behind you. The Record tracks whichever order you read in.

02 — The path

Five phases. Each one ends in something you built.

Class 1 FREE Foundations 9 classes · AZ-900 Build I Core Infra 7 classes · AZ-104 Build II DevOps 9 classes · AZ-400 Build III Operate & AI 16 classes Build IV 42 classes · five phases 3 capstones your portfolio
  1. IFoundationsNine classes · AZ-900A governed subscription: management groups, role assignments, two policies, all as code.Build I
  2. IICore InfrastructureSeven classes · AZ-104A two-tier app with storage the internet cannot reach, behind an application gateway.Build II
  3. IIIThe DevOps CoreNine classes · AZ-400A GitOps loop: a pull request plans, a merge deploys, a gate waits for a human, no secret in the repo.Build III
  4. IVOperate, Secure, AISixteen classesObservability and cost guardrails across everything above. A KQL alert that matters, a budget that shouts.Build IV
  5. VProof & PayoffCapstones · Class 42Three portfolio capstones and a class on presenting your work during a job search.All 42 classes
Where should I start?

New to cloud? Class One introduces the foundations. Already comfortable with Azure? Start with infrastructure as code, or browse all 42 classes. No Azure subscription is needed to read.

What is free, and what can cost money?

The self-paced classes are free to read. A free account saves progress. Deploying lab resources in your own Azure subscription can incur charges; check each lab’s prerequisites and cleanup steps. Live coaching is a separate paid option with its own dates and terms.

How long will this take?

Follow the track at your own pace. Reading, troubleshooting, and completing the projects take different amounts of time. Work through a class and a lab before choosing a weekly schedule.

What does the certificate verify?

The CAMPUX certificate records course completion and can be checked against our registry. It is a CAMPUX credential. Microsoft certification requires Microsoft’s own exam process, and course completion does not guarantee employment.

03 — The method

Try one question. See how we teach.

A sample drill from Class One. Pick an answer. The marking talks you through it.

Class 01 · Drill 04Spot the error

A junior engineer briefed leadership before a migration. One line is wrong. Which?

MEMORANDUM — Cloud migration, executive summary

1.  Renting cloud resources can shift spending from CapEx to OpEx.
2.  Supported services can scale automatically when autoscaling is configured.
3.  Once we migrate, the provider secures our data and user accounts.
4.  Metered usage determines charges; idle resources can still incur costs.
Marked, with reasoning

Line three. Under the shared responsibility model, you remain responsible for protecting your data and identities. Microsoft manages the underlying cloud infrastructure. Other responsibilities depend on whether you use IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS. See Microsoft’s responsibility matrix.

The full class is free

04 — The proof

Three capstones. One certificate anyone can verify.

Each capstone is a public repository, a rubric, and the questions an interviewer will ask about it. Finish all 42 classes and the certificate carries an ID checkable against a public registry.

Project 01

Enterprise Web Platform

Three tiers, delivered entirely through pipelines, with an approval gate and a budget watching the bill.

View project Project 02

Miniature Landing Zone

Governance before workload. Policies that deny, hub-and-spoke networking, access written as code.

View project Project 03

The AI Workload

An assistant on Azure OpenAI behind a private endpoint, shipped by the same pipeline as everything else.

View project Exhibit B
CAMPUX · BOOTCAMP · CERTIFIED · CX EST · MMXXVI

The certificate

Registry ID sample-adam-eve. Compare its name, completion details, and ID with the public registry.

See a sample certificate
05 — Who teaches it
Captain O, founder and instructor of the CAMPUX Cloud Engineering Bootcamp

I run this in production. Now I’m handing it to you.

Captain O. Senior Azure Cloud & DevSecOps engineer, nine years in enterprise IT, six of them entirely on Azure. Trained first as a helicopter pilot, which is where the checklist habit comes from.

I kept meeting people who passed the certs and still got told to come back with experience. So I wrote down the exact work I do in production and gave it away.

150+
enterprise apps migrated, zero disruption
80%
cut from Azure SQL spend
94/100
Defender for Cloud security score
60%
lower MTTR on production incidents

The labs are public on GitHub

Also from CAMPUX

The same idea, pointed at Microsoft AI.

Ten free projects on Microsoft Foundry and Azure AI. You build an agent, make it call a real tool, watch it fail in the specific ways agents fail, and come away able to explain the trade-offs to somebody who is paying for it.

Every project was built and broken in a real subscription before it was written up, so the pages carry the error text we actually got and the numbers we actually measured, not a tutorial’s happy path. Free, and there is nothing to sign up for.

ai.campuxlearn.com

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