Hi Tribe..how can anyone learn cloud skills that are used in the industry....I recently completed Azure 204 certification by reading documentation and practicing labs...yet I don't feel confident to tackle a project that uses cloud technology or infrastructure.How do I gain practical knowledge in Azure so that I am skilled enough to be deployed in a project.

sign up for azure, get free credits and use it to build / architect something. A webapp fronted by a load balancer connected to a cache, a database, an object store should be good enough to get started. Do it by hand first, understand what is needed and then use a infra as code(IaC) tool like terraform to build/deploy it. Save on cost by destroying when not working on it. IaC will make spinning up and tearing down much faster

adding on to Sathyajith once you have done that, learning and experimenting on the job as and when things are required, will be the way to go. 🚀

master the concepts only change in real world is dealing it in a bigger way like you may have practised with 2 nodes as load balancer but in real world that number would be bigger like 100+ sitting behind a load balancer.