What you'll learn
- When enterprises need AI agents
- The core building blocks of AI agents
- How Microsoft Foundry and Agent Framework fit together
- How to set up Azure AI, Foundry, CLI, VS Code, and Python
- How agents communicate with Azure AI services
- How to use models from multiple providers including OpenAI, Deepseek, and more
AI agents are quickly becoming a real part of enterprise software.
Not just chatbots. Not just API calls. Real systems that can reason through tasks, use tools, follow workflows, and hand decisions back to humans when it matters.
In this course, you’ll be introducted to the fundamentals of Azure's most powerful AI tol: Microsoft Foundry (formerly Azure AI Studio).
You’ll start with the core ideas behind agents: what makes them different from traditional automation, how they communicate, and how they connect to business systems. Then you’ll set up a complete development environment with Azure AI, the CLI, VS Code, the AI Toolkit, and Python.
From there, you’ll build toward something practical: a human-in-the-loop content pipeline where agents generate and refine work while approval steps, conditions, and regeneration loops keep the process controlled.
By the end, you’ll understand what it actually means to build AI agent workflows for production-style environments.
Wait... What's a Byte?
Bytes are shorter courses that allow you to upgrade your skills and knowledge in a single day!
Learning is hard. And sometimes you just need a quick learning fix, right? To learn something awesome, interesting, and relevant to your career goals.
That's why we've created Bytes.
What Else Should I Know?
By becoming a ZTM member you'll not only get access to all our courses, bytes, and projects.
But you’ll also get to join our exclusive live online community classroom to learn alongside thousands of students, alumni, mentors, TAs and Instructors.
Most importantly, you'll be learning from an industry professional (Andrei) that has actual real-world experience working with AI. He teaches you the exact strategies and techniques he uses in his role.
Finally, as with all ZTM courses, this course is a living thing. It will be constantly updated as the landscape changes so you can use it as your go-to resource for the OpenAI API now and throughout your career.
Join 1,000s of Zero To Mastery graduates that have gotten hired and are now working at companies like Google, Tesla, Amazon, Apple, IBM, JP Morgan, Facebook, Shopify + other top tech companies.
They come from all different backgrounds, ages, and experiences. Many even started as complete beginners.
So there's no reason it can't be you too.
And you have nothing to lose. Because you can start learning right now and if this course isn't everything you expected, we'll refund you 100% within 30 days. No hassles and no questions asked.
I would recommend Andrei's ZTM courses to anyone who wants to learn web dev inside and out. His Junior to Senior course even helped me land my job at Tesla. They asked a lot of security questions in my interview and I answered them thanks to this course.
Who You Will Learn With
You're getting more than just a course
Our instructors, TAs, Mentors, Alumni, and fellow students go above and beyond to help guide you and ensure you're on the right path to achieve your goals. Our private ZTM Discord server is a key factor in taking your skills, confidence and career to the next level.
