A Developer's Guide to Cloud Apps Using Microsoft Azure

An easy-to-follow guide to help you build modern and secure applications and deploy them on Microsoft Azure, implementing the best practices, patterns and new technologies

Key Features

• Learn the various methods to migrate legacy applications to cloud using the different Azure services
• Implement continuous integration and deployment as a best practice for DevOps and agile development
• Get started with building cloud-based applications using containers and orchestrators in different scenarios
• Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in the PDF format

Book Description

Companies face several challenges during cloud adoption, and developers and architects are required to migrate a legacy application and build new cloud-oriented applications using the Azure based technologies in different environments. A Developer's Guide to Cloud Apps Using Microsoft Azure helps you to learn how to migrate old applications to Azure using the Cloud Adoption Framework and use cases and build secure and reliable applications ready for market.

This book begins with the benefits of moving legacy apps to the cloud and modernizing the existing legacy applications using a set of new technologies and approaches. You'll then learn technologies and patterns to build cloud-oriented applications. The book will take you on a journey through three major services in Azure, namely, Azure Container Registry, Azure container instance, and Azure Kubernetes, which will help you to build and deploy an application based on microservices. Finally, you'll be able to ensure a continuous integration and deployment in Azure to fully automate the software delivery process (including the build and release processes).

By the end of this book, you will be able to do application migration assessment and planning, select the right Azure services, and create and implement a new cloud-oriented application using Azure containers and orchestrators.

What you will learn

• Understand the new patterns and technologies for cloud-native applications
• Easily migrate old applications and databases to Azure
• Work with containers and orchestrators to automate your app deployment
• Select the right Azure services for deployment as per the use cases
• Setup CI/CD to deploy apps and service on Azure DevOps
• Create Azure App Service to deploy your first application
• Build a containerized app using Docker and Azure Container Registry

Who This Book Is For

This book is for cloud developers, software architects, system administrators, developers, and computer science students looking to understand the new role of software architect or developer in the cloud world. Professionals looking to enhance their cloud and cloud-native programming concepts will also find this book useful. Having a sound background in C#, ASP.NET Core, and Visual Studio (any recent version) and a basic knowledge of cloud computing will be helpful when using this book.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Cloud-Native Apps Lifecycle
2. Beginning with Your Application Migration
3. Migrating Your Existing Applications to a Modern Environment
4. Exploring the Use Cases and Application Architecture
5. Learning Cloud Patterns and Technologies
6. Setting up the Environment to Build and Deploy Cloud-based Applications
7. Creating Azure App Service to Deploy Your First Application
8. Building a Containerized App Using Docker and Azure Container Registry
9. Understanding Container Orchestration
10. Setting Up a Kubernetes Cluster on AKS
11. Introduction to Azure DevOps and Github
12. Creating a Dev Pipeline in Azure DevOps