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. In this comprehensive course, you will learn the essentials of deploying a MEAN stack application on the Azure Cloud with a fully automated CI/CD pipeline. The journey begins with an introduction to cloud computing and the different models, such as IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. You will also explore Azure DevOps, setting up an Azure free account, and enabling essential Azure pipeline agents. These foundational concepts will prepare you for the hands-on deployment work. The second section dives deeper into the technical aspects of the MEAN stack application, starting with an overview of Node.js API deployment. You will learn how to create a CosmosDB database, connect it to your local environment, and push your code to Azure Repos Git. With this setup, the course will guide you through building a CI pipeline for your backend services, followed by creating Azure App Service and automating deployment via CD pipelines. The integration with a local Angular app is also covered, along with monitoring through Azure App Insights. Finally, you’ll focus on deploying the Angular front-end app. This section walks you through setting up storage containers, configuring CI/CD pipelines for Angular, and performing an end-to-end test of the entire application on Azure. By the end, you will be able to efficiently manage a production-level MEAN stack app using a fully functional CI/CD pipeline on Azure. This course is designed for full-stack developers, cloud engineers, and DevOps professionals who are familiar with the basics of web development and have experience working with Git and cloud platforms. A prior understanding of JavaScript, Node.js, and Angular is recommended to get the most out of this course.