Build AI Solutions with Microsoft Foundry

Microsoft Foundry is the platform where you build, deploy, and manage AI solutions on Microsoft’s infrastructure. This course covers the full development lifecycle — from model selection and deployment, through prompt engineering and flow orchestration, to agent building and production monitoring.

You will deploy models from the model catalog — GPT-4o, Phi, Llama, and other open-source models — and configure them for your use cases. The prompt flow section teaches you to build orchestration pipelines that chain multiple AI calls together, integrate with external data sources, and handle the error cases that real applications encounter. Agent development is a major focus: you will build agents that use tool calling, maintain conversation state, and execute multi-step reasoning workflows.

Production readiness separates a demo from a real deployment. The course covers content safety filters, evaluation frameworks for measuring model performance, and monitoring dashboards that track latency, token usage, and failure rates. If you are building AI applications on Microsoft’s platform, this course teaches you to do it properly.

Curriculum

Model Deployment and Configuration

• Model catalog and selection criteria
• GPT, Phi, and open-source model deployment
• Model configuration and parameter tuning
• Managed endpoints and serverless deployment

Prompt Engineering and Flows

• Prompt design patterns and techniques
• Prompt flow creation and orchestration
• Data integration and grounding
• Testing and iterating on prompt flows

Agent Development

• Agent architecture and capabilities
• Tool calling and function integration
• Multi-step reasoning and planning
• Conversation management and state handling

Production Operations

• Content safety filters and responsible AI
• Evaluation frameworks and benchmarking
• Monitoring and observability for AI deployments
• Cost management and optimization

Who Is This For

This course is for developers, AI engineers, and solution architects who are building AI applications on Microsoft Foundry. If your organization is developing custom AI solutions — chatbots, document processing, data analysis, or agent-based workflows — this course gives you the practical skills to build and deploy them. Familiarity with AI concepts and basic programming is helpful.