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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

App Service

App Service is one of the most important Azure services out there since it provides PaaS offerings for the following:

  • Web apps
  • Mobile apps
  • API apps
  • Logic apps
  • Function apps

Because of this, you no longer have to care about the underlying infrastructure that the application is hosted in. You only have to work on developing your applications, provided that Microsoft can provide an SLA of 99.95% availability for your apps.

In the following subsection, you will learn how to provide scalability for your apps.

Scaling up the App Service plan

When you notice that your application is consuming too many App Service plan resources, you can scale up the App Service plan. This gives it more resources so that it can...