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Hands-On Azure for Developers

By : Kamil Mrzygłód
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Hands-On Azure for Developers

By: Kamil Mrzygłód

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure is one of the fastest growing public cloud service providers in the market currently, and also holds the second highest market share after AWS. Azure has a sophisticated set of services that will help you build fault-tolerant and scalable cloud-based applications. Hands-On Azure for Developers will take you on a journey through multiple PaaS services available in Azure, including App Services, Functions, and Service Fabric, and explain in detail how to build a complete and reliable system with ease. You will learn about how to maximize your skills when building cloud-based solutions leveraging different SQL/NoSQL databases, serverless and messaging components, and even search engines such as Azure Search. In the concluding chapters, this book covers more advanced scenarios such as scalability best practices, serving static content with Azure CDN, and distributing loads with Azure Traffic Manager. By the end of the book, you will be able to build modern applications on the Azure cloud using the most popular and promising technologies, which will help make your solutions reliable, stable, and efficient.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)

Working with AKS

AKS eases the process of deploying and managing containerized applications by eliminating the need to maintain or upgrade your resources on your own. It is a managed Kubernetes service hosted in Azure with many helpful features such as integrated logging and monitoring, identity and security management, and virtual network integration. In this section, we will create a simple application hosted in an AKS cluster, which we will scale and update.

Preparing an application

Let's start with a tutorial application proposed by the Docker documentation:

  1. To begin, we need Dockerfile, which is a definition of how our container environment should look. It contains keywords such as FROM (defines an image that will...