Development of a .NET Web Application (a Global App) with Azure Platform as a Service components.
Microsoft Azure PaaS (Platform as a Service) provides a great platform and many services that enable you to build highly-available performant and secure applications.
In this course, we are going to build a globally-distributed application that is resilient, performant, and secure.
Some of the major topics that we will cover include the following
- Azure Basics
- Introduction to Cloud Computing
- IaaS Vs PaaS vs SaaS and Serverless
- Understand Azure Management Portal
- Understand various Components of Azure (Subscription, Resource Groups etc)
- Creating the web application with web apps
- Understand various Deployment Options available with Azure App Services
- Debugging production environment applications from local Visual Studio.
- Zero downtime deployment and rollback using App Service Deployment Slots.
- Restriction of access to only whitelisted IP Addresses
- Configure Custom Domains to Web Apps
- Configure Backups of the Web apps application code
- Understand various troubleshooting options of App Services.
- Web Server and Application Logs
- KUDU
- Diagnose and Solve Errors
- App Service Diagnostics
- Configure real-time diagnostics logs using Log Stream.
- App Service scaling and Load Balancing
- Overview of various App Service Plan tiers, itâ??s features and limits
- Understanding Vertical Scaling Vs Horizontal Scaling
- Simulate Load on App Services using PowerShell
- Manual Scale-out of App Service instances after simulating the load
- Auto Scale-out of the App Service instances based on CPU Utilization
- Configure Alerts when new instances gets provisioned and de-provisioned
- Understand the Auto-scale Core concepts and best practices that needs to be followed in real-world applications
- Creating a Logical SQL Server along with a SQL Database
- Create Logical SQL Server and Sql Database
- Understand how to scale-up and scale-down the capacity of SQL Database
- Understand how to configure Alerts on db load
- Configure Web App code to access SQL Database
- Hardening the Database connection for secured access using Managed Identity.
- Configure Geo-Replication for disaster recovery.
- Application Insights - Monitoring and Troubleshooting
- Overview of App Insights
- Configure Application Insights with the App Service from Visual Studio
- Create & Configure Availability Tests to monitor the availability of Web Apps from various locations across the globe.
- Application Insights - Write queries to understand how to filter data of Application analytics.
- Azure Functions - a Serverless Technology
- Understand the evolution of various Cloud services (IaaS, PaaS & Serverless)
- Understand how scaling works in IaaS, PaaS & Serverless.
- Overview of Azure Functions - Core Concepts
- Triggers
- Bindings (Input & Output)
- Develop Azure Functions using Portal
- Integrate Azure Functions with other Azure Services.
- Storage
- Cosmos DB
- Understand how to configure background services and schedule them
- CDN
- Redis Cache
- Create Redis Cache
- Azure Redis Cache Configure Data Persistence
- Azure Redis Cache â?? Improve performance using Clustering
- Azure Redis Cache Enhanced security and network isolation
- Leverage Redis Cache to manage Application Sessions in a Load Balancing environment
- Security
- Secure an application and data with Azure Active Directory B2C
- Configure security to Storage account using
- Access keys
- Shared Access Signature
- Configure Firewall to whitelist the required IP Address for secure access at both Server level and Database Level
- Implement RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) authorization to Azure Services
- Create and Configure Key-Vaults to secure secrets
- Orchestrating the on-boarding process with Azure Logic apps.
- Getting Started with Logic Apps and itâ??s architecture
- Understand the building blocks of Logic Apps
- Understand the use cases of Logic Apps with a real-time examples
- Integrate Logic Apps with Azure Functions
- Azure Storage for storing Images & documents
- Understand different Storage Services
- Learn how to work with Blob Storage to save files and folders on the cloud
- Understand how to use Queues and implement Queue-Centric Patterns
- Copy files from on-premises to Azure Storage using AzCopy
- Understand how to configure SMB protocol with Azure File Share
- Build Intelligence using Cognitive Services
- Create Computer Vision API Cognitive Services for building intelligence
- Understand how to analyse an image
- Crop the image smartly without losing aspect ratio
- Understand various categories of Cognitive Services
- Understand how to monitor & analyse metrics and alerts
- API Management for securing the APIs
- Create and Configure API Management to secure your APIs
- Configure Throttling and Rate limit to limit the number of requests
- Understand how to secure and customize the API using APIM Policies
- Cosmos DB
- Cosmos DB â?? architecture
- Understand the RUs and Throughput
- Understand Partitions and the advantages
- Build Container based Apps
- Create a Docker based application using Visual Studio.
- Deploy the image to Azure Container Registry
- Create and configure Azure Kubernetes Service.
- Azure Service Bus for implementing Queue Centric Pattern
- Azure search
- Overview of Azure Search
- Understand the use-case of Azure Search
- Understand how to utilize and integrate Azure Search service to your application to implement Search.
- Import Data from Azure SQL Database
- Create Indexes and schedule the data-sync
- Understand how to search the index data
- Azure DevOps (VSTS)
- Create an Organization
- Create Project & Configure Git / TFVC
- Understand the different types of users (Basic & Stakeholder)
- Create PBIs using Azure DevOps
- Manage Test Cases
- Understand Build & Release Agents
- Capacity Planning using Azure DevOps
- Understand & Configure Kanban DashBoard using Azure DevOps
- Create & Manage repositories
- Create & Manage Branches
- Sync Branches using Visual Studio
- Create & Manage Pull Requests & Merge the code
- Implement Continuous integration
- Understand Build Tasks
- Understand Build Templates
- Create Build Definitions for .NET Application
- Integrate Sonarqube for Static Code Analysis of .NET Application
- Run Build Definition
- Understand the pre defined Build variables
- Configure Build Automation to automatically trigger the build
- Understand and review Build Artifacts
- Implement Continuous Deployment
- Create Release pipeline
- Configure Azure Subscriptions & Azure Resource Groups to the pipeline
- Link Build artifacts with release pipeline
- Create Release stages (Environments)
- Create Environment Specific variables
- ARM Templates
- Overview of ARM Templates
- Benefits of ARM Templates
- Understand the Structure of ARM Templates
- Provision Azure Resources using ARM Templates
- Plug-in ARM Templates to Release pipeline to automate the process of provisioning the Resources
- Azure Migrations
- Understand various Migration Patterns
- Rehost
- Refactor
- ReArchitect
- Rebuild
- Migration an On-Premises .NET application to Azure PaaS Environment
- Migration an On-Premise SQL Server database to Azure SQL Database
- Understand various tools required for Migrating the .NET app & database
- Introduction to Azure Kubernetes Service
By the end of this course, you'll know how to design and build a global application using the power of Microsoft Azure Platform as a Service offering.
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