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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 an Azure Kubernetes Service cluster

Now that we’ve learned a little about AKS, we will learn how to create a resource in the Azure portal as well as the CLI and PowerShell:

  1. Start by logging in to your Azure portal and searching for Kubernetes:

Figure 4.1 – Finding the Kubernetes service in Azure

  1. Since this is your first time creating this specific resource, you will see an empty prompt with the Create button. Click the Create button to continue, and select Create a Kubernetes cluster.

Figure 4.2 – Creating the Kubernetes cluster

  1. Fill in the details for Resource group, Kubernetes cluster name, and Region.

Figure 4.3 – Fill out cluster details

  1. Once the Kubernetes cluster is created, we can validate that the node pool was also initialized.

Figure 4.4 – Kubernetes cluster ready to use

Managing a Kubernetes...