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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

An Introduction to the Cloud-Native App Lifecycle

This first chapter is about introducing the basic concepts of cloud-native development and the lifecycle involved. You will learn the basic concepts behind building and deploying applications on any cloud platform, including adopting a microservices architecture, containerization, and orchestration.

To enable developers to build applications with more flexibility and more portability compared to applications hosted on traditional servers or virtual machines (VMs), we will learn how to use containers and serverless architecture.

To accelerate the product development process and improve the quality of our apps, we will follow the Twelve-Factor Application design principles and methodology. As projects grow, code bases also become more complex, and it is strongly recommended that you test new versions of software.

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

  • An introduction to cloud-native applications
  • Application design
  • Application lifecycles
  • The Twelve-Factor Application design methodology
  • Serverless applications of cloud-native applications