Practical Azure Application Development

Chapter 1: Introduction to the Azure PlatformChapter Goal: Introduction to Azure as a solutions platform specific focus on the PaaS features of Azure. Details about ARM and creating / managing resources at high level.Sub -Topics* Azure as a platform cloud service * How application can use PaaS features of Azure * Azure Resource Manager and Resource Groups * Introduction to the scenario/solution sample for the practical application development. Chapter 2: Starting the Document Portal: Initial Application DevelopmentChapter Goal: Creating the application in the very early stage with minimal features in the mind. This how an application development begins. This creates a demo app for the go to market strategy.Sub - Topics * Creating Azure App Service web apps and hosting the app * Using Azure blob storage to store documents * Using Azure SQL database to store customer information Chapter 3: Setting up the team and DevOpsChapter Goal: The next level of initiation pace, the team gets aligned and setting up DevOps using Azure and VSTS.Sub - Topics: * Setting VSTS environment and setting up Azure * Creating Dev and Production environments * Creating build definitions and setting up a basic DevOps process * Setting up alerts and configure Application Insights for monitoring Chapter 4: Integrating social features to the applicationChapter Goal: The app requires more modern features to compete in the new trendy market. This chapter will guide the developer to include comment based features and robust caching functions and custom logging features.Sub - Topics: * Using Azure Document DB and include forum based feature to the portal * Using Redis on Azure and increase the performance and functionality of the app * Creating application specific logs using Azure Table storage. Chapter 5: Enabling enterprise grade single sign on to the application and other multi-tenant considerations.Chapter Goal: ISVs have high beneficial features available in Azure, they can use to create multi-tenant applications. This chapter focuses on AAD features and other concerns to consider during multi-tenant development.Sub - Topics: * Configure AAD and enable multi-tenancy in application. * Available SQL Database strategies in multi-tenant application Chapter 6: Next generation Visualizations with Azure Power BI EmbeddedChapter Goal: The reporting capabilities of Azure Power BI Embedded and usage model in multi-tenant applicationsSub - Topics: Chapter Goal: Details of various security features in Azure and usage of encryption services.Sub - Topics: * Available built in security features of Azure App Service * Available built in security features of Azure SQL Databases * Advance security configuration and encryption with Azure Key Vault Chapter 8: Enable SearchChapter Goal: Enabling search using Azure SearchSub - Topics: * Introduction to Azure Search * Setting up basic search features in Azure. Chapter 9: Expose APIs for developers Chapter Goal: Expose the portal for the internal and external developers for consumption using Azure API ManagementSub - Topics: * Introduction to Azure API Management * Setting up Azure API Management and expose the APIs * Setting up developer portal