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Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure

By : Greg Leonardo
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Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure

By: Greg Leonardo

Overview of this book

Azure provides cloud-based solutions to support your business demands. Building and running solutions on Azure will help your business maximize the return on investment and minimize the total cost of ownership. Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure focuses on addressing the architectural decisions that usually arise when you design or migrate a solution to Microsoft Azure. You will start by designing the building blocks of infrastructure solution on Azure, such as Azure compute, storage, and networking, followed by exploring the database options it offers. You will get to grips with designing scalable web and mobile solutions and understand where to host your Active Directory and Identity Solution. Moving on, you’ll learn how to extend DevOps to Azure. You will also beneft from some exciting services that enable extremely smooth operations and streamlined DevOps between on-premises and cloud. The book will help you to design a secure environment for your solution, on both the Cloud and hybrid. Toward the end, you’ll see how to manage and monitor cloud and hybrid solutions. By the end of this book, you will be armed with all the tools and knowledge you need to properly plan and design your solutions on Azure, whether it’s for a brand new project or migration project.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Developing locally


For those of you who don’t know, each resource built in Visual Studio is able to be debugged. Some will require external installs for debugging to work fully. Let's review debugging in Visual Studio for those who are unfamiliar with it. Once you open Visual Studio and create a project, you will see a debug button and a debug file menu. One caveat is that you should make sure that you have the right startup project selected, as shown in the following screenshot:

This will give you the ability to set your code with breakpoints and see what is happening. For most web applications, you can test locally, as you normally would before you deploy. I generally tend to use Docker containers to run things locally, such as testing or adding a .NET Core App to Docker. There are also some emulators to help with local development. Let's start by installing Docker locally; I would make sure that you are running Hyper-V locally or Docker will install VirtualBox as the management resource...