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Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure

By : Sjoukje Zaal, Amit Malik, Sander Rossel, Jason Marston, Mohamed Waly, Stefano Demiliani
Book Image

Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure

By: Sjoukje Zaal, Amit Malik, Sander Rossel, Jason Marston, Mohamed Waly, Stefano Demiliani

Overview of this book

Whether you are trying to re-architect a legacy app or build a cloud-ready app from scratch, using the Azure ecosystem with .NET and Java technologies helps you to strategize and plan your app modernization process effectively. With this book, you’ll learn how to modernize your applications by using Azure for containerization, DevOps, microservices, and serverless solutions to reduce development time and costs, while also making your applications robust, secure, and scalable. You will delve into improving application efficiency by using container services such as Azure Container Service, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and more. Next, you will learn to modernize your application by implementing DevOps throughout your application development life cycle. You will then focus on increasing the scalability and performance of your overall application with microservices, before learning how to add extra functionality to your application with Azure serverless solutions. Finally, you’ll get up to speed with monitoring and troubleshooting techniques. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to use the Azure ecosystem to refactor, re-architect, and rebuild your web, mobile, and desktop applications.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Planning Application Modernization
4
Implementing Containerization and DevOps in a Development Cycle
8
Building a Web and Microservices Architecture on Azure
12
Going Serverless and Deploying to the Cloud
17
Planning for Security, Availability, and Monitoring

Azure boards

Azure boards allow you to plan, discuss, and track tasks across teams and team members. Task management and tracking is a crucial component of the DevOps practice since it starts from conceptualizing the work and is linked until the release.

Azure boards are based on standard Kanban boards and provide capabilities such as the following:

  • Work items: Create and assign work items to your team. Team members can also use work items to track their items and update statuses against work progress in the work item itself. There are multiple categories of work items available out of the box, such as the following:
    • Bug
    • Epic
    • Feature
    • Issue
    • Task
    • Test case
    • User story

Each type of work item has different properties. Team members can track their efforts in hours with work items.

  • Boards: Create boards with various buckets and move the work items across buckets toward completion...