Building AI Agents with Azure AI Foundry SDK: A Practical Guide for Developers and Data Engineers

By Newman Chandler

Building AI Agents with Azure AI Foundry SDK: A Practical Guide for Developers and Data Engineers

What if you could build AI agents that don't just chat, but reason, plan, and act securely across your enterprise stack? As organizations move beyond simple prompt-based systems, the demand for production-grade AI agents has exploded. Yet most developers struggle to move from prototypes to robust, auditable, and scalable solutions.

This book gives you the practical blueprint. Building AI Agents with Azure AI Foundry SDK shows you how to design, implement, and deploy intelligent, reliable, and cost-efficient agents using Microsoft's cutting-edge Foundry SDK. It's not a theoretical overview, it's a developer's manual written from the ground up for real-world engineering.

You'll learn how to:

Configure and authenticate environments using managed identities and secure credentials.

Build, test, and deploy agents with structured prompts, integrated tools, and observability baked in.

Implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), memory, and planning strategies for adaptive decision-making.

Connect agents with Azure services, Search, Functions, Blob Storage, for rich, context-aware interactions.

Monitor, trace, and evaluate every run with OpenTelemetry and Application Insights.

Scale confidently using containerized deployments, infrastructure-as-code, and canary release strategies.

Enforce enterprise-level governance through role-based access, encryption, and content-safety policies.

Whether you're a software engineer integrating AI into existing systems, a data engineer designing retrieval pipelines, or a technical lead responsible for deploying agents at scale, this book equips you with working, reproducible solutions. Every example is complete, runnable, and focused on one goal, bridging experimentation and production.

You won't just understand how Azure AI Foundry SDK works, you'll master how to use it to build systems that think, act, and deliver results responsibly.

If you're ready to move past prototypes and start shipping real AI agents that perform, observe, and scale, get this book and start building today.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FWKG3Y5W
• ISBN13: 9798270097653
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 10.0"