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A Developer's Guide to .NET in Azure

By : Anuraj Parameswaran, Tamir Al Balkhi
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A Developer's Guide to .NET in Azure

By: Anuraj Parameswaran, Tamir Al Balkhi

Overview of this book

A Developer’s Guide to .NET in Azure helps you embark on a transformative journey through Microsoft Azure that is tailored to .NET developers. This book is a curated compendium that’ll enable you to master the creation of resilient, scalable, and highly available applications. The book is divided into four parts, with Part 1 demystifying Azure for you and emphasizing the portal's utility and seamless integration. The chapters in this section help you configure your workspace for optimal Azure synergy. You’ll then move on to Part 2, where you’ll explore serverless computing, microservices, containerization, Dapr, and Azure Kubernetes Service for scalability, and build pragmatic, cost-effective applications using Azure Functions and Container apps. Part 3 delves into data and storage, showing you how to utilize Azure Blob Storage for unstructured data, Azure SQL Database for structured data, and Azure Cosmos DB for document-oriented data. The final part teaches you about messaging and security, utilizing Azure App Configuration, Event Hubs, Service Bus, Key Vault, and Azure AD B2C for robust, secure applications. By the end of this book, you’ll have mastered Azure's responsive infrastructure for exceptional applications.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1: An Introduction to Your Environment
3
Part 2: Serverless and Microservices
8
Part 3: Data and Storage
12
Part 4: Messaging Mechanisms and Security

Introducing Azure App Configuration

One of the key recommendations in the Twelve-Factor app guidance (https://12factor.net/) is to keep the configuration separate from the application code. Azure App Configuration offers a solution for managing application settings or configuration and feature flags in a centralized manner out of the application code. The Azure App Configuration service helps us to manage application settings or configurations for distributed applications securely and easily. Azure App Configuration can be used by any application. There are SDKs available from Azure to connect to Azure App Configuration for .NET, .NET Core, Python, Node.js, and Java Spring. Other languages or platforms can make use of the REST API provided by Azure to access Azure App Configuration.

In the upcoming sections, we will be creating an Azure App Configuration instance, which will help us to set up our application configuration, and then we will explore how to consume the Azure App Configuration...