Developing solutions for Microsoft Azure

Explore Azure App Service

Learn about the key components of Azure App Service and how App Service can help you create, maintain, and deploy web apps more efficiently.

• Examine Azure App Service
• Examine Azure App Service plans
• Deploy to App Service
• Explore authentication and authorization in App Service
• Discover App Service networking features
• Exercise: Create a static HTML web app by using Azure Cloud Shell

Configure web app settings

Configure web app settings

• Configure application settings
• Configure general settings
• Configure path mappings
• Enable diagnostic logging
• Configure security certificates

Scale apps in Azure App Service

Scale apps in Azure App Service

• Examine autoscale factors
• Identify autoscale factors
• Enable autoscale in App Service
• Explore autoscale best practices

Explore Azure App Service deployment slots

In this module you'll learn how slot swapping operates and how to perform a swap. You'll also learn how to route traffic to different slots manually and automatically.

• Explore staging environments
• Examine slot swapping
• Swap deployment slots
• Route traffic in App Service

Explore Azure Functions

Learn how Azure Functions can be a great solution for data processing, systems integration, and building simple APIs and microservices.

• Discover Azure Functions
• Compare Azure Functions hosting options
• Scale Azure Functions

Develop Azure Functions

Learn how to create and deploy Azure Functions.

• Explore Azure Functions development
• Create triggers and bindings
• Connect functions to Azure services
• Exercise: Create an Azure Function by using Visual Studio Code

Explore Azure Blob storage

Learn the core features and functionality of Azure Blob storage.

• Explore Azure Blob storage
• Discover Azure Blob storage resource types
• Explore Azure Storage security features
• Discover static website hosting in Azure Storage

Manage the Azure Blob storage lifecycle

Learn how to manage data availability throughout the Azure Blob storage lifecycle.

• Explore the Azure Blob storage lifecycle
• Discover Blob storage lifecycle policies
• Implement Blob storage lifecycle policies
• Rehydrate blob data from the archive tier

Work with Azure Blob storage

Learn how to use the Azure Blob storage client library to create and update Blob storage resources.

• Explore Azure Blob storage client library
• Create a client object
• Exercise: Create Blob storage resources by using the .NET client library
• Manage container properties and metadata by using .NET
• Set and retrieve properties and metadata for blob resources by using REST

Explore Azure Cosmos DB

Learn the core features and functionality of Azure Cosmos DB.

• Identify key benefits of Azure Cosmos DB
• Explore the resource hierarchy
• Explore consistency levels
• Choose the right consistency level
• Explore supported APIs
• Discover request units
• Exercise: Create Azure Cosmos DB resources by using the Azure portal

Work with Azure Cosmos DB

Learn how to develop client and server-side programming solutions on Azure Cosmos DB.

• Explore Microsoft .NET SDK v3 for Azure Cosmos DB
• Exercise: Create resources by using the Microsoft .NET SDK v3
• Create stored procedures
• Create triggers and user-defined functions
• Explore change feed in Azure Cosmos DB

Manage container images in Azure Container Registry

Learn how to use Azure Container Registry to store your container images, and automate builds and deployments.

• Discover the Azure Container Registry
• Explore storage capabilities
• Build and manage containers with tasks
• Explore elements of a Dockerfile
• Exercise: Build and run a container image by using Azure Container Registry Tasks

Run container images in Azure Container Instances

Run container images in Azure Container Instances

• Explore Azure Container Instances
• Exercise - Deploy a container instance by using the Azure CLI
• Run containerized tasks with restart policies
• Set environment variables in container instances
• Mount an Azure file share in Azure Container Instances

Implement Azure Container Apps

Run serverless containerized apps in Azure Container Apps service.

• Explore Azure Container Apps
• Exercise - Deploy a container app
• Explore containers in Azure Container Apps
• Implement authentication and authorization in Azure Container Apps
• Manage revisions and secrets in Azure Container Apps
• Explore Dapr integration with Azure Container Apps

Explore the Microsoft identity platform

Learn the core features and functionality of the Microsoft identity platform including authentication, libraries, and app management tools.

• Explore the Microsoft identity platform
• Explore service principals
• Discover permissions and consent
• Discover conditional access

Implement authentication by using the Microsoft Authentication Library

Implement authentication by using the Microsoft Authentication Library

• Explore the Microsoft Authentication Library
• Initialize client applications
• Exercise - Implement interactive authentication by using MSAL.NET

Implement shared access signatures

Implement shared access signatures

• Discover shared access signatures
• Choose when to use shared access signatures
• Explore stored access policies

Explore Microsoft Graph

Learn how Microsoft Graph facilitates the access and flow of data and how to form queries through REST and code.

• Discover Microsoft Graph
• Query Microsoft Graph by using REST
• Query Microsoft Graph by using SDKs
• Apply best practices to Microsoft Graph

Implement Azure Key Vault

Learn how Azure Key Vault can help you keep your apps more secure, and how to set and retrieve secrets by using the Azure CLI.

• Explore Azure Key Vault
• Discover Azure Key Vault best practices
• Authenticate to Azure Key Vault
• Exercise: Set and retrieve a secret from Azure Key Vault by using Azure CLI

Implement managed identities

Implement managed identities

• Explore managed identities
• Discover the managed identities authentication flow
• Configure managed identities
• Acquire an access token

Implement Azure App Configuration

Learn how to use Azure App Configuration service to centrally manage and secure your configuration settings, and to manage app features.

• Explore the Azure App Configuration service
• Create paired keys and values
• Manage application features
• Secure app configuration data

Explore API Management

Learn how the API Management service functions, how to transform and secure APIs, and how to create a backend API.

• Discover the API Management service
• Explore API gateways
• Explore API Management policies
• Create advanced policies
• Secure APIs by using subscriptions
• Secure APIs by using certificates
• Exercise - Create a backend API

Explore Azure Event Grid

Explore Azure Event Grid

• Explore Azure Event Grid
• Discover event schemas
• Explore event delivery durability
• Control access to events
• Receive events by using webhooks
• Filter events
• Exercise - Route custom events to web endpoint by using Azure CLI

Explore Azure Event Hubs

Learn how Azure Event Hubs captures events and how to scale your processing application.

• Discover Azure Event Hubs
• Explore Event Hubs Capture
• Scale your processing application
• Control access to events
• Perform common operations with the Event Hubs client library

Discover Azure message queues

Learn how to integrate Azure Service Bus and Azure Queue storage in to your solution, and how to send and receive message by using .NET.

• Choose a message queue solution
• Explore Azure Service Bus
• Discover Service Bus queues, topics, and subscriptions
• Explore Service Bus message payloads and serialization
• Exercise: Send and receive message from a Service Bus queue by using .NET.
• Explore Azure Queue Storage
• Create and manage Azure Queue Storage and messages by using .NET

Monitor app performance

Monitor app performance

• Explore Application Insights
• Discover log-based metrics
• Instrument an app for monitoring
• Select an availability test
• Troubleshoot app performance by using Application Map

Develop for Azure Cache for Redis

Learn how to configure Azure Cache for Redis, interact with the cache, and connect an application to Azure Cache for Redis by using .NET.

• Explore Azure Cache for Redis
• Configure Azure Cache for Redis
• Interact with Azure Cache for Redis by using .NET
• Exercise - Connect an app to Azure Cache for Redis by using .NET Core

Develop for storage on CDNs

Learn how the Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) functions, how to control cache behavior, and how to perform actions by using .NET.

• Explore Azure Content Delivery Networks
• Control cache behavior on Azure Content Delivery Networks
• Interact with Azure Content Delivery Networks by using .NET