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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

Setting up secrets, certificates, and keys

In the previous section, we learned about Azure Key Vault and how to create a key vault using the Azure portal and Azure CLI. In this section, we will learn how to set up secrets, certificates, and keys in Azure Key Vault. We can configure Azure Key Vault access with two permission models – Azure Key Vault access policies and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). Azure Key Vault access policies are used to control access to specific resources (keys, secrets, and certificates) within a key vault, providing fine-grained control over who can perform specific operations within the vault. RBAC, on the other hand, is a broader Azure-wide access control mechanism for managing permissions on various resources, including key vaults, and is beneficial when you need a unified access control framework across your entire Azure environment. Choose access policies for detailed control within a key vault, especially when managing individual resources,...