How to Build a RAG system on Azure: From Local Dev to Production(Terraform, Python, NextJS)

👉 The will be provided at the end 🙂 You’ve probably seen the. Someone drops a PDF into a chat interface, asks a question about page 47, and the AI answers accurately. It looks like magic. Then you try to build it yourself and spend three days debugging CORS errors, Terraform quota failures, and an App Service that serves the Azure default page no matter what you deploy. The gap between “RAG ” and “RAG system that works in production” is enormous, and almost nobody talks about what actually lives inside it. This article does.