Portal & Administration
Microsoft has thorough coverage of Cost Management & Billing:
- Cost Management + Billing Overview: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/
- Review Your Subscription Bill: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/understand/review-individual-bill
- Start Analyzing Costs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/costs/quick-acm-cost-analysis
- What is FinOps?: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-computing/finops/overview
These articles cover portal setup, alert thresholds, email notifications, and Action Groups in full.
- Create and Manage Budgets: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/costs/tutorial-acm-create-budgets
- Use Cost Alerts to Monitor Usage and Spending: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/costs/cost-mgt-alerts-monitor-usage-spending
- Manage Costs with Budgets (Advanced/Automation): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/manage/cost-management-budget-scenario
- Create a Project: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/how-to/create-projects
- Quickstart – Set Up Foundry Resources: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/tutorials/quickstart-create-foundry-resources
These cover portal UI deployment, CLI deployment, endpoint retrieval, and API key access.
- Deploy Models Using Azure CLI and Bicep: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/foundry-models/how-to/create-model-deployments
- Deploy Foundry Models in the Portal: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/foundry-models/how-to/deploy-foundry-models
- Quickstart – Build with Models and Agents: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/quickstarts/get-started-code
Access & Security
These cover all Foundry-specific roles (Foundry User, Foundry Owner, Foundry Project Manager, Foundry Account Owner), portal UI role assignment, CLI commands, least-privilege patterns, and Entra security groups.
- Role-Based Access Control for Foundry: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/concepts/rbac-foundry
- Authentication and Authorization in Foundry: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/concepts/authentication-authorization-foundry
Microsoft covers key retrieval, security warnings, key rotation, and recommends Entra ID over API keys for production.
- Authentication and Authorization (API Keys section): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/concepts/authentication-authorization-foundry#api-keys
- View Project Settings (Endpoint & Key retrieval): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/how-to/create-projects#view-project-settings
- Rotate API Access Keys: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/rotate-keys (referenced in auth docs)
Developer Resources
Covers extension installation, signing in via the Azure Resources panel, browsing the model catalog, deploying models, using the playground, and generating sample code — all within VS Code. Includes environment variable setup for keyless (Entra ID) authentication.
- Work with the Microsoft Foundry Toolkit for VS Code: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/how-to/develop/get-started-projects-vs-code
- Quickstart – Get Started with the Foundry SDK: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/quickstarts/get-started-code