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Azure for Developers. - Second Edition

By : Kamil Mrzygłód
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Book Image

Azure for Developers. - Second Edition

5 (1)
By: Kamil Mrzygłód

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure is currently one of the fastest growing public cloud service providers thanks to its sophisticated set of services for building fault-tolerant and scalable cloud-based applications. This second edition of Azure for Developers will take you on a journey through the various PaaS services available in Azure, including Azure App Service, Azure Functions, and Azure SQL Databases, showing you how to build a complete and reliable system with ease. Throughout the book, you’ll discover ways to enhance your skills when building cloud-based solutions leveraging different SQL/NoSQL databases, serverless and messaging components, containerized solutions, and even search engines such as Azure Cognitive Search. That’s not all!! The book also covers more advanced scenarios such as scalability best practices, serving static content with Azure CDN, and distributing loads with Azure Traffic Manager, Azure Application Gateway, and Azure Front Door. By the end of this Azure book, you’ll be able to build modern applications on the Azure cloud using the most popular and promising technologies to make your solutions reliable, stable, and efficient.
Table of Contents (32 chapters)
1
Part 1: PaaS and Containers
8
Part 2: Serverless and Reactive Architecture
14
Part 3: Storage, Messaging, and Monitoring
22
Part 4: Performance, Scalability, and Maintainability

Azure App Service – a web app for containers

In Chapter 1, Web Applications in Azure – Azure App Services, we went through the basic configuration of web applications in Azure and discussed ways to deploy them. What we used there was deployment via code – we prepared our application's structure, packaged it, and sent it to Azure App Service. Depending on the deployment choice (whether you are using a simple file deployment or running your application from a package), Azure App Service either just uploaded files to the appropriate directory or used an archive as the source. In this chapter, we will take a little bit of a different approach and deploy our application using a container image.

Note

A prerequisite for this exercise is having an Azure Container Registry deployed. If you do not know how to do that, look at Chapter 2, Using Azure Container Registry for Storing and Managing Images, where we discussed the process in detail.

Now, let's...