Building Agentic Solutions with Microsoft Foundry

Patterns, Workflows, and Best Practices for Intelligent Agents

Welcome

This is a website of “Building Agentic Solutions with Microsoft Foundry” that accompanies the physical book published by O’Reilly Media in September 2026.

If you’d like a physical copy of the book, you can order it on Amazon or read it on O’Reilly’s learning platform.

Bringing AI into production involves much more than model deployment. Organizations need to control how agents access data, respond to users, and operate within governance policies. Microsoft Foundry offers a unified platform for building, scaling, and managing intelligent agents across an enterprise. This book helps you unlock Foundry’s full potential through proven practices, clear examples, and actionable guidance.

Building Agentic Solutions with Microsoft Foundry is a hands-on guide for cloud engineers, AI developers, and technical leaders using Azure to implement enterprise-ready AI. You’ll learn how to deploy large language models, connect them to secure data sources, manage quotas and usage, and architect agentic workflows. This book will become a trusted reference as you bring intelligent agents into your organization.

• Deploy large language models using Microsoft Foundry services
• Connect agents to other platforms and services with MCP tools
• Configure retrieval-augmented generation with Foundry IQ knowledge bases
• Fine-tune models and build multi-agent workflows
• Monitor usage and track performance with built-in observability features
• Apply reference architectures and patterns suited for enterprise environments
• Govern compliant and secure AI applications with confidence using scalable management tools