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Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure

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

Azure Web Apps is a part of Azure App Service and is where you can host your websites and applications in Azure. Using Web Apps, you only pay for the compute resources you use, not for the actual hosting of your site or application. Besides websites and applications, you can also host your web APIs and your mobile backends inside Azure Web Apps.

You can use a programming language of your choice for developing applications. At the time of writing, Azure Web Apps supports .NET, .NET Core, Java, Ruby, Node.js, PHP, and Python. These applications are hosted on Windows or Linux VMs that are fully managed by Microsoft and can easily be scaled using out-of-the-box features. Besides scaling, you can leverage other Azure features, such as security, load balancing, and insights and analytics. You can also use the DevOps capabilities, such as continuous integration and...