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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)
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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
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Exploring Azure DevOps

To create software with a team, we need a set of tools that help plan the project, collaborate on code, run test cases, and build and deploy code efficiently. Software vendors often bundle these services together to improve the developer experience. This set of these tools is called a DevOps suite. Over the years, Microsoft has embraced the use of DevOps practices and developed tools to make DevOps workflows accessible to everyone.

Azure DevOps includes built-in functionality that you can access from a web browser using Azure servers or via an IDE client via the on-premises installable version. Depending on your business needs, you can use one or more of the following standalone services:

  • Azure Boards, where the developer team can manage work efficiently.
  • Azure Repos, where we host source code on Azure servers.
  • Azure Pipelines, which ensures the hosting, building, and deployment of our code in the cloud.
  • Azure Test Plans provides multiple...