Building a personal AI assistant on Azure, step by step
Architecture diagrams are useful, but they eventually have to become files that run together. In this tutorial I build one complete vertical slice of a personal operations assistant, first on a Windows workstation with no Azure dependency, then on Azure Container Apps with Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Search. The companion implementation is in labs/personal-assistant in my agentic-infra-handbook repository. The commands and snippets below match that lab. The lab’s README also has its own step-by-step Azure deployment walkthrough, covering App Registration, the AZD environment, callback registration, validation, and cleanup as a standalone reference. ...