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A Developer's Guide to Cloud Apps Using Microsoft Azure

By : Hamida Rebai Trabelsi
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A Developer's Guide to Cloud Apps Using Microsoft Azure

By: Hamida Rebai Trabelsi

Overview of this book

Companies face several challenges during cloud adoption, with developers and architects needing to migrate legacy applications and build cloud-oriented applications using Azure-based technologies in different environments. A Developer’s Guide to Cloud Apps Using Microsoft Azure helps you learn how to migrate old apps to Azure using the Cloud Adoption Framework and presents use cases, as well as build market-ready secure and reliable applications. The book begins by introducing you to the benefits of moving legacy apps to the cloud and modernizing existing ones using a set of new technologies and approaches. You’ll then learn how to use technologies and patterns to build cloud-oriented applications. This app development book takes you on a journey through three major services in Azure, namely Azure Container Registry, Azure Container Instances, and Azure Kubernetes Service, which will help you build and deploy an application based on microservices. Finally, you’ll be able to implement 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’ll be able to perform application migration assessment and planning, select the right Azure services, and create and implement a new cloud-oriented application using Azure containers and orchestrators.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Migrating Applications to Azure
6
Part 2 – Building Cloud-Oriented Applications Using Patterns and Technologies in Azure
10
Part 3 – PaaS versus CaaS to Deploy Containers in Azure
14
Part 4 – Ensuring Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment on Azure
17
Assessments

Describing the development process for Docker-based applications

Docker is a tool for building, deploying, and running applications using a containerization approach. These containers are lighter and take less time to launch compared to traditional servers. These containers also increase performance and reduce costs, while providing good resource management. Another advantage of using Docker is that you no longer need to pre-allocate memory to each container.

Docker was created to simplify the process of setting up environments where an application will run and is developed.

The development environment for Docker-based applications

Microsoft offers multiple tools for developing Docker applications:

  • Visual Studio (Windows and macOS): For Windows, if we want to create applications using .NET 6 or later, we can use Visual Studio 2022 version 17.0 or later. Different tools for Docker are already installed, and we can debug and run any application on a single or multiple...