Chapter 1, Strategies for Application Modernization Using Azure, introduces app modernization for Azure and different migration strategies.
Chapter 2, Building Your Application Migration Roadmap, focuses on defining an app modernization roadmap for your organization or customers.
Chapter 3, Getting Started with Docker and Kubernetes, focuses on the modernization and migration of applications to Azure by leveraging the power of containerization.
Chapter 4, Deploying Highly Scalable Apps with Kubernetes, covers deploying and managing Kubernetes-based environments on Azure.
Chapter 5, Modernizing Apps and Infrastructure with DevOps, goes into detail about Microsoft's new offering, Azure DevOps, which provides various tools and services to facilitate an enterprise-class DevOps culture in organizations of every size.
Chapter 6, Designing Web Applications, covers information regarding Azure web apps, the different App Service plans that are available, and the characteristics of the different App Service plans.
Chapter 7, Scalability and Performance, introduces compute-intensive applications. It covers how to design high-performance computing (HPC) and other compute-intensive applications using Azure services, how to determine when to use Azure Batch, and how to design stateless components to accommodate scale and containers with Azure Batch.
Chapter 8, Building Microservices with Service Fabric, dives into creating a microservice application from scratch using Azure Service Fabric. We will create an application in .NET and in Java.
Chapter 9, Building Scalable Systems with Azure Functions, talks about Azure Function apps, which are a great way to write small pieces of code that are highly scalable, reusable, and cheap.
Chapter 10, Connecting to the Database, talks about the various databases that can be used to connect your application.
Chapter 11, Managing and Deploying Your Code, covers Azure integrations and plugins for popular IDEs, including Visual Studio, Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and IntelliJ.
Chapter 12, Securing Your Azure Services, teaches you how to secure some of the most commonly used Azure services, such as Azure Storage, Azure App Service, and Azure SQL Database.
Chapter 13, Diagnostics and Monitoring, introduces the design for operations objective by covering application and platform monitoring and alerting strategies, providing an overview of the solutions that Azure has to offer.
Chapter 14, Designing for High Availability and Disaster Recovery, covers a number of solutions that will keep your solutions highly available so as to avoid downtime as much as possible.