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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

Creating a release pipeline in Azure Pipelines

Release pipelines are used to automate deployments. This project starts by downloading the artifact files produced by the build pipeline. Then, we split the pipeline into two phases: backup and deployment.

We will navigate to Releases under Pipelines, and then select New pipeline:

Figure 12.7 – Creating a new release pipeline in Azure DevOps

Figure 12.7 – Creating a new release pipeline in Azure DevOps

A new dialog box will be displayed to create a custom template, so click on Empty job:

Figure 12.8 – Creating an empty job

Figure 12.8 – Creating an empty job

An artifact will be selected for deployment.

In this project, Build is selected as the source type. Different version control systems can be used if desired. The source alias has been renamed so that it can be used in other tasks:

Figure 12.9 – Adding an artifact in Azure DevOps

Figure 12.9 – Adding an artifact in Azure DevOps

We will select the name of the project that contains the build pipeline, the name or...