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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

Migrating an ASP.NET web solution to a Windows container

In this section, we take a look at migration, using modern technologies such as containers to deploy ASP.NET Web solutions to containers.

We will learn more about containers in Chapter 8, Building a Containerized App Using Docker and Azure Container Registry. For now, what we need to understand in our migration with containers is that we will be able to include application dependencies with the application itself, reducing the number of issues that we encounter when we deploy to production environments or test in staging environments. It is the best solution to improve the agility of application delivery.

A containerized application is one of the main pillars of a cloud-optimized application. A container environment offers resiliency, high availability, monitoring using App Insights, and continuous integration and continuous delivery.

Figure 3.19 – The benefits of using containers

Figure 3.19 – The benefits of using containers

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