Updated in May 2025.

This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. This course is designed to guide you through deploying a full MERN stack application on Azure Cloud using Azure DevOps pipelines for seamless CI/CD integration. You’ll start by getting a solid introduction to cloud infrastructure, the role of public cloud providers, and the fundamental models like IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. The course then dives into the specifics of Azure Cloud services and DevOps, ensuring you have a foundational understanding before proceeding with deployment. Once you’ve registered for an Azure free account and familiarized yourself with the Azure portal, you’ll explore setting up pipeline agents and configuring repositories in Azure DevOps. The course demonstrates the complete process of pushing Node.js (Express) and React.js code to Azure Repos and building separate CI/CD pipelines for both components. You’ll also learn how to integrate CosmosDB into your MERN application, ensuring seamless data management in the cloud. The final part of the course focuses on testing and deploying your application on Azure. You’ll walk through creating end-to-end tests, monitoring your deployed application, and enabling auto-commit triggers for continuous delivery. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to deploy and manage a production-grade MERN stack app on Azure Cloud with full automation via CI/CD pipelines. This course is ideal for web developers and DevOps engineers who want to deploy full-stack applications in a cloud environment. A basic understanding of JavaScript, Node.js, and React.js is recommended. Familiarity with version control systems like Git is also beneficial.