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Azure for  Developers

Azure for Developers - Third Edition

By : Kamil Mrzygłód
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Azure for  Developers

Azure for Developers

By: Kamil Mrzygłód

Overview of this book

Supercharge your development career by mastering Azure’s evolving GenAI, container, and serverless capabilities to build scalable, secure applications with confidence. This third edition of Azure for Developers transforms complex cloud concepts into practical skills, guiding you through the design, deployment, and management of cloud-native solutions while eliminating infrastructure headaches. Fully updated with Azure’s latest features, this hands-on guide helps you automate DevOps pipelines with GitHub Actions, deploy microservices using containers, and integrate generative AI via Azure OpenAI to modernize your development workflows. You will learn how to set up your environment, streamline app deployment, and implement robust service integrations using real-world best practices. The final section is a game-changer for developers who want to stay ahead of the curve. It shows you how to leverage Azure’s AI and machine learning services to automate tasks, fine-tune models, and build intelligent assistants and next-generation workflows. By the end, you will have the confidence and capabilities to deliver production-grade cloud solutions that meet real-world demands and position yourself at the forefront of modern cloud development.
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
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Part 1:Setting Up Your Environment
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Part 2:Web Applications and Workflows in Microsoft Azure
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Part 3:Containers in Microsoft Azure
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Part 4:Storage, Messaging, and Monitoring
21
Part 5:AI, ML, and DevOps

Deploying an application using Azure Container Apps

Until now, we’ve been mostly focused on the introduction to Azure Container Apps and presenting its main features. In this section, we will try to deploy an application and see how we can utilize different capabilities of this Azure service.

To get started, we will prepare a simple containerized application that we can use for deployments.

Preparing a simple application

To be able to focus on Azure Container Apps, our application will be as simple as possible. To do that properly, we need to create a Dockerfile and push it to a registry. Let’s start with the Dockerfile:

FROM nginx:latest
COPY index.html /usr/share/nginx/html/index.html

As you can see, we will use the latest available version of nginx to host a simple HTML page. The code for the HTML page will look like this:

<html>
<head>
    <title>Chapter 11</title>
</head>
<body>
  ...
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