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A Developer's Guide to Building Resilient Cloud Applications with Azure

By : Hamida Rebai Trabelsi
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A Developer's Guide to Building Resilient Cloud Applications with Azure

By: Hamida Rebai Trabelsi

Overview of this book

To deliver software at a faster rate and reduced costs, companies with stable legacy systems and growing data volumes are trying to modernize their applications and accelerate innovation, but this is no easy matter. A Developer’s Guide to Building Resilient Cloud Applications with Azure helps you overcome these application modernization challenges to build secure and reliable cloud-based applications on Azure and connect them to databases with the help of easy-to-follow examples. The book begins with a basic definition of serverless and event-driven architecture and Database-as-a-Service, before moving on to an exploration of the different services in Azure, namely Azure API Management using the gateway pattern, event-driven architecture, Event Grid, Azure Event Hubs, Azure message queues, FaaS using Azure Functions, and the database-oriented cloud. Throughout the chapters, you’ll learn about creating, importing, and managing APIs and Service Fabric in Azure, and discover how to ensure continuous integration and deployment in Azure to fully automate the software delivery process, that is, the build and release process. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build and deploy cloud-oriented applications using APIs, serverless, Service Fabric, Azure Functions, and Event Grid technologies.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1: Building Cloud-Oriented Apps Using Patterns and Technologies
5
Part 2: Connecting Your Application with Azure Databases
13
Part 3: Ensuring Continuous Integration and Continuous Container Deployment on Azure

Exercise 1 – creating a backend API and deploying APIs

During this exercise, you’ll learn how to do the following:

  • Create an API Management instance
  • Import an API
  • Configure the backend settings
  • Test the API

We will start by creating an API Management instance using two methods, the first one using the Azure portal and the second using Azure Cloud Shell.

Creating an API Management instance

This section will show you how to create an API Management instance using two methods: the Azure portal and Azure Cloud Shell.

Using the Azure portal

We will open the Azure portal using the following link: https://portal.azure.com/, then, follow these steps:

  1. Select Create a resource from the home page.
  2. On the Create a resource page, select Integration and then API Management.
  3. On the Install API Management gateway page, enter the different settings requested. The following screenshot shows the Project details and Instance details...