Developing AI Agents on Azure

AI agents are transforming how we automate complex tasks by reasoning, planning, and executing actions autonomously. This text-based course guides you through the process of building and orchestrating these intelligent systems on Azure. You will transition from understanding basic language model prompts to engineering production-ready agents that can interact with external APIs, search databases, and collaborate to solve multi-step problems. What you'll learn: - Understand core AI agent architectures, including planning, memory, and tool execution. - Configure Azure OpenAI services and deploy foundational language models. - Implement function calling and tool integration to connect your agents to external systems. - Build multi-agent workflows using modern orchestration patterns. - Integrate Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to ground your agents in domain-specific data. - Monitor, evaluate, and secure your agentic applications in the cloud. The course begins with foundational definitions of agentic workflows before moving step-by-step through cloud configuration, practical coding exercises, and multi-agent system design. It is designed for software developers and cloud enthusiasts new to AI agents, requiring no prior artificial intelligence experience. Start reading today to build your first autonomous agent on Azure.