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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

Rationalization

Since it’s all about the application, your choice of strategy will depend on the migration process. It’s really important to understand the different strategies.

Cloud rationalization is a process used to evaluate assets in order to define the best way to migrate or modernize each asset in the cloud.

For more information about this process, you can follow this link: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/digital-estate/.

In this section, we will talk about the different cloud migration strategies and what are commonly known as the five Rs of rationalization, which can be implemented by organizations to migrate applications to the cloud.

In the planning phase, organizations prepare an appropriate plan and approach for migrating each internal application by prioritizing dependencies. This strategy defines success or failure, as it will maximize the value of the cloud infrastructure while minimizing time, costs, migration...