Microsoft Azure for ASP.NET Core

Description

Microsoft Azure is the premier cloud hosting platform for .NET applications. The modern .NET developer must be comfortable in navigating the different services and features and taking advantage of the cloud hosting platform to produce top-notch enterprise applications. This course will start with basic knowledge of Microsoft Azure, followed by navigating and customizing the Azure portal. After this, we will look at provisioning and managing Microsoft Azure services along with virtual machines on Azure. Next, we will provision and use Azure app services; use Azure SQL and understand the different hosting models; use Azure Blob storage. You will also work with NoSQL databases (for example, Azure CosmosDB), monitor web applications for performance and potential errors using application insights, and scale applications and databases based on load. Then, you will set up continuous deployment with GitHub actions and Azure web app services. You will also look at how to manage application secrets in .NET applications and use Azure Service Bus and queues. Next, you will build and deploy Azure functions. Finally, you will integrate advanced .NET application security with Azure AD and Azure AD B2C. By the end of this course, you should have a fundamental understanding of what Microsoft Azure is and how its many services and third-party tools can be used to best serve your context. All the resource files are uploaded on the GitHub repository at: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Microsoft-Azure-for-ASP.NET-Core

What You Will Learn

Learn how to integrate with Microsoft Azure APIs and SDKs
Access Microsoft Azure APIs from the .NET Core application
Learn to publish the .NET Core app to Azure
Learn how to provision and manipulate the Azure SQL database
Learn to use Azure Blob storage and Azure Services Bus (message queues)
Understand Microsoft Azure pricing models and locations

Audience

This course is best suited for developers who want to understand Microsoft Azure and want to know how to integrate with Azure through code.

You need some C#/.NET Core knowledge and an Azure account (or free trial account) to get along with this course. Some database knowledge is required but not mandatory.

Having a foundation in ASP.NET Core development will come as a plus because we will be focusing less on the fundamentals.

Approach

This course is a short yet complete course on understanding Microsoft Azure from scratch and how to integrate Azure into your .NET configuration. It is a highly practical course and aligns with the training required for the Exam AZ-204: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure examination but is not the official guide.

Key Features

Tour the Microsoft Azure portal along with resource management, and build and deploy the Azure function app * Set up continuous deployment with GitHub actions and Azure web services * Look at unique applications to demonstrate how integrations work between our code and Microsoft Azure APIs

Github Repo

https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Microsoft-Azure-for-ASP.NET-Core

About the Author

Trevoir Williams

Trevoir Williams is a software engineer and part-time lecturer. With a master's degree in computer science, he has spent over a decade teaching web, software, and database development courses. He also has extensive industry experience in web application development, Azure Cloud system, and server administration. He enjoys teaching IT and development courses and hopes to impart knowledge of the latest developments in industry standards and techniques to his students.

Course Outline

1. Introduction

2. Get Started With Microsoft Azure

3. Using Azure Web App and Azure SQL

4. Azure Databases (SQL and Cosmos DB)

5. Azure Storage (Blobs)

6. Azure Functions for Serverless Solutions

7. Microsoft Azure Active Directory

8. Microsoft Azure AD (B2C)

9. Conclusion