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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
Assessments

Beginning Your Application Migration

In this chapter, we will support you on your cloud computing journey by sharing cloud adoption methodologies and the best practices, tools, and resources that can simplify and accelerate your migration to the cloud. We will introduce the prerequisites to consider before migrating an application to Azure.

In order to apply the best practices to digitally transform and accelerate the operational results of internal applications, at the beginning of this chapter, we will explain the organizational features identified by Microsoft Azure. This will improve readiness for the cloud, and as these features are based on the Cloud Adoption Framework, we will plan the migration and the different strategies for cloud migration according to the Azure hosting options.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following topics:

  • Understanding the Cloud Adoption Framework
  • Rationalization
  • Understanding Azure hosting options
  • Evaluating...