Table Of ContentHands-On Azure for
Developers
Implement rich Azure PaaS ecosystems using containers,
serverless services, and storage solutions
Kamil Mrzygłód
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Hands-On Azure for Developers
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Contributors
About the author
Kamil Mrzygłód is a skilled software developer, architect, and Microsoft Azure MVP. He is
focused on delivering fast, reliable, and flexible cloud solutions based on the Microsoft
Azure platform. He has spoken at multiple conferences and meetups, working on open
source software (OSS) projects and driving workshops for different people and companies.
Over recent years, he has developed an interest in Azure serverless architectures, data
analysis, and big data components. Currently, he works at Demant Technology Center in
Warsaw. His current goal is to make the world of cloud computing as accessible as it can be
so that it's possible to lower the learning curve of this technology and help others start
using it.
I would like to thank my editor, Dattatraya More, for his helpful insights and valuable
guidance, which helped me a lot while writing this book. I would also like to thank
Shrilekha Inani, who gave me the opportunity to become an author and assisted me in all
the formal aspects of doing so. Last, but by no means least, I would like to thank my
reviewers—you really made this book worth reading by carefully examining whether each
chapter made sense.
About the reviewers
Kasam Shaikh, a Microsoft Azure enthusiast, is a seasoned professional with a can-do
attitude and 10 years of industry experience working as a cloud architect with one of the
leading IT companies in Mumbai, India. He is a certified Azure architect, recognized as an
MVP by a leading online community, as well as a global AI speaker, and has authored
books on Azure Cognitive, Azure Bots, and Microsoft Bot frameworks. He is head of
the Azure INDIA (az-INDIA) community, the fastest growing online community for
learning Azure.
Praveen Kumar Sreeram works as an Azure architect at MNC. He has 12 years of
experience in the field of development, analysis, design, and delivery of applications of
various technologies, including custom web development using ASP.NET and MVC to
building mobile apps using the cross-platform technology Xamarin for domains such as
insurance, telecoms, and wireless expense management. He has been awarded two times as
the Most Valuable Professional CSharpCorner. You can also follow him on Twitter
at @PrawinSreeram. His current focus is on analyzing business problems and providing
technical solutions for various projects related to Microsoft Azure and .NET Core. He is
also an author of a book call Azure Serverless computing cookbook.
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Table of Contents
Preface 1
Chapter 1: Azure App Service 7
Technical requirements 7
Creating and deploying Azure App Service 8
Creating Azure App Service using the Azure Portal 8
Selecting Azure Web App from available services 8
Configuring an Azure web app 10
Creating an App Service Plan 11
Creating an Azure App Service using Visual Studio 15
Deploying Azure App Service using FTP 22
Deploying Azure App Service with user-level credentials 22
Deploying Azure App Service using app-level credentials 27
Downloading app-level credentials from the Azure Portal 28
Configuring WebDeploy in Visual Studio 29
Creating Azure App Services using Visual Studio Code 30
Working with different operating systems and platforms 33
Selecting an operating system 34
Selecting different platforms 35
Different App Service Plans and features 37
Dev/Test App Service Plans 38
Production App Service Plans 39
Isolated App Service Plans 40
Securing App Services using different security providers 41
Configuring authentication/authorization in the Azure Portal 41
Using Azure Active Directory to secure App Services 42
Using other authentication providers 46
Diagnostics and monitoring of App Services 46
The Overview blade 47
Metrics 47
Monitoring 48
Summary 49
Questions 49
Further reading 50
Chapter 2: Azure WebJobs 51
Technical requirements 51
Creating WebJobs 51
Creating and deploying WebJobs in Azure Portal 52
Creating an application in Visual Studio 52
Deploying a WebJob in the Azure Portal 53
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Deploying WebJobs from Visual Studio 57
Working with the WebJobs SDK 60
Calling a job manually 63
Automatic triggers in WebJobs 64
Publish a job 66
Azure WebJobs limitations 67
Using different file types for WebJobs 68
Creating and deploying a Node.js application as a WebJob 68
Deploying a Node.js Azure WebJob from Visual Studio Code 69
Summary 71
Questions 71
Further reading 71
Chapter 3: Deploying Web Applications as Containers 72
Technical requirements 72
Working with AKS 73
Preparing an application 73
Container Registry and Kubernetes clusters 75
Pushing a Docker image to Azure Container Registry 76
Creating a Kubernetes cluster using AKS 79
Running, scaling, and updating an application in AKS 81
Solving problems with authentication 83
Scaling a cluster 85
Updating an application 85
Azure Container Instances 86
Creating and deploying an application and container 86
Pushing an image to Azure Container Registry 88
Deploying an application to ACI 88
Web App for Containers 91
Creating a web app hosted in a container 91
Deploying a custom application 95
Summary 97
Questions 98
Further reading 98
Chapter 4: Distributed Applications and Microservices with Service
Fabric 99
Technical requirements 100
Understanding microservices 100
Monolith versus microservices 100
Microservice approach 101
Using different languages and frameworks 101
Scaling and updating services individually 102
Using well-designed interfaces and protocols 103
Dealing with state 103
Diagnosing and monitoring microservices 104
Containers, services, and actors in SF 105
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Containers 105
Creating a cluster 105
Deploying a container 109
Packaging a service 111
Reliable services 112
Creating a SF application 112
Deploying an application to the cloud 117
Reliable actors 122
Creating a project with actors 123
Creating an actor's client 126
Communication between services 127
Creating a communication channel 128
Clusters in SF 131
Cluster security 132
Node-to-node security 132
Client-to-node security 133
Scaling 134
Scaling a cluster up or down 134
Monitoring and diagnostics 135
Application monitoring 135
Cluster monitoring 136
Health monitoring 136
Summary 137
Questions 138
Further reading 138
Chapter 5: Using Azure Search 139
Technical requirements 139
Creating an Azure Search service 139
Using Azure Portal 140
Full-text search in Azure Search 144
Sending a request 144
Linguistic analysis in full-text search 148
Analyzers in Azure Search 148
Analyzer selection 151
Indexing in Azure Search 152
Importing more data 152
Push model 152
Pull model 154
Cognitive search – adding AI to the indexing workload 155
Configuring Cognitive Search 156
Summary 158
Questions 158
Further reading 159
Chapter 6: Mobile Notifications with Notification Hub 160
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