Azure for Developers: Implement rich Azure PaaS ecosystems using containers, serverless services, and storage solutions, 2nd Edition

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Table of Contents
Part 1: PaaS and Containers
Chapter 1: Web Applications in Azure – Azure App Service
	Technical requirements
	Creating and deploying an Azure App Service resource
		Creating an Azure App Service resource using the Azure portal
		Creating an Azure App Service resource using Visual Studio
		Deploying Azure App Service resources using the Azure CLI
		Creating Azure App Service resources using VS Code
	Working with different operating systems and platforms
		Selecting an operating system
		Selecting different platforms
	Choosing the right App Service plan and exploring what its features are
		Dev / Test App Service plans
		Production App Service plans
		Isolated App Service plans
		Isolated V2 plan
	Securing App Service resources using different security providers
		Configuring authentication in the Azure portal
	Configuring networking for Azure App Service
		The Networking blade
		Access Restrictions
		Private endpoints
		VNet integration
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 2: Using Azure Container Registry for Storing and Managing Images
	Technical requirements
	Different hosting options for Azure Container Registry
		Deploying ACR with the Azure portal
		Deploying ACR using the Azure CLI
	Registries, repositories, and images
		Working with repositories and images
		Granting permissions for pulling/pushing images
		Tagging and versioning
		Zone redundancy and geo-replication
		ACR Tasks
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 3: Deploying Web Applications as Containers
	Technical requirements
	Different ways of hosting containerized applications
	Azure App Service – a web app for containers
		Preparing an application
		Using a container image in an Azure App Service plan
	Azure Kubernetes Service – a managed Kubernetes service
		Kubernetes and managed cluster basics
		Azure Kubernetes Service deployment
		Application deployment
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 4: Using Azure Container Instances for Ad Hoc Application Hosting
	Technical requirements
	Provisioning and configuring a service
	Container groups as the main unit of work
	Security baseline and considerations
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 5: Building a Search Engine with Azure Cognitive Search
	Technical requirements
	Creating an Azure Cognitive Search instance
		Using the Azure portal
	A full-text search in Azure Cognitive Search
		Sending a request
	Linguistic analysis in a full-text search
		Analyzers in Azure Cognitive Search
	Indexing in Azure Cognitive Search
		Importing more data
	Cognitive Search – adding AI to the indexing workload
		Configuring cognitive skills
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 6: Mobile Notifications with Notification Hubs
	Technical requirements
	Reasons to use Notification Hubs
		Challenges for application design
	Push notification architecture
		Direct connection
		Queued communication
		Triggered communication
	Registering a device within Notification Hubs
		Notification Hubs device registration
	Sending notifications to multiple vendors
		Sending a test notification
		Using the SDK to send a notification
	Sending a rich content notification through Notification Hubs
		Creating and sending a rich content notification
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Part 2: Serverless and Reactive Architecture
Chapter 7: Serverless and Azure Functions
	Technical requirements
	Understanding Azure Functions
		Being "serverless"
		The concepts of Azure Functions
		Scaling
	Configuring the local environment for developing Azure Functions
		Starting with Azure Functions locally
	Creating a function
		Using Visual Studio Code
		Using the Azure portal
	The features of Azure Functions
		Platform features
		Security
		Monitor
		host.json
		Publish
	Integrating functions with other services
		The Function file
		Input/output bindings
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 8: Durable Functions
	Technical requirements
	What is Durable Functions?
		Orchestrations and activities
		Orchestration client
		Orchestration history
	Working with orchestrations
		Sub-orchestrations
	Timers, external events, and error handling
		Timers
		External events
		Error handling
	Eternal and singleton orchestrations, stateful entities, and task hubs
		Eternal orchestrations
		Singleton orchestrations
		Stateful entities
		Task hubs
	Advanced features – instance management, versioning, and high availability
		Instance management
		Versioning
		High availability
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 9: Integrating Different Components with Logic Apps
	Technical requirements
	What is Azure Logic Apps?
		Azure logic apps – how they work
		Azure Logic Apps – advantages
	Connectors for logic apps
		Connector types
	Creating logic apps and integrating services
		Creating logic apps in the Azure portal
		Working with Azure logic apps in Visual Studio Code
	B2B integration
		Starting B2B integration in Azure Logic Apps
	Integrating with virtual networks
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 10: Swiss Army Knife – Azure Cosmos DB
	Technical requirements
	Understanding Cosmos DB
		Creating a Cosmos DB instance in the portal
		Pricing in Azure Cosmos DB
	Partitioning, throughput, and consistency
		Partitions in Azure Cosmos DB
		Throughput in Azure Cosmos DB
		Consistency in Azure Cosmos DB
	Azure Cosmos DB models and APIs
		SQL
		MongoDB
		Graph
		Table
		Cassandra
	Capacity, autoscale, and optimization
		Container throughput
		Database level throughput
		Firewall and virtual networks
		Azure Functions
		Stored procedures
		User-defined functions and triggers
		Autoscale in Azure Cosmos DB
	Using change feed for change tracking
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 11: Reactive Architecture with Event Grid
	Technical requirements
	Azure Event Grid and reactive architecture
		Reactive architecture
		Topics and event subscriptions
	Connecting services through Azure Event Grid
		Creating Azure Event Grid in the Azure Portal
		Azure Event Grid security
		Creating a subscription
	Using different schemas in Event Grid
		Event Grid schema
		The CloudEvents schema
		Custom schema
	Receiving and filtering events
		EventGridTrigger in Azure Functions
		Testing Azure Event Grid and Azure Functions
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Part 3: Storage, Messaging, and Monitoring
Chapter 12: Using Azure Storage – Tables, Queues, Files, and Blobs
	Technical requirements
	Using Azure Storage in a solution
		Different Azure Storage services
		Different types of storage accounts
		Securing Azure Storage
		Replication
	Storing structured data with Azure Storage tables
		Creating an Azure Storage service
		Managing Table storage
		Storing data in Table storage
		Querying data in Table storage
		Table API in Azure Cosmos DB
	Implementing fully managed file shares with Azure Files
		Azure Files concepts
		Working with Azure Files
		Blob storage versus Azure Files
	Using queues with Azure Queue Storage
		Queue Storage features
		Developing an application using Queue Storage
	Using Azure Storage blobs for object storage
		Blob storage concepts
		Inserting data into Blob Storage
		Containers and permissions
		Blob storage – additional features
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 13: Big Data Pipeline – Azure Event Hubs
	Technical requirements
		Azure Event Hubss service and concepts
		Azure Event Hubss concepts
		Azure Event Hubss durability
	Working with Azure Event Hubss
		Creating an Azure Event Hubss instance in the Azure portal
		Working with Azure Event Hubss in the portal
		Developing applications with Azure Event Hubs
	Federation – events replication
	Azure Event Hubs security
		Private Link
		Resource isolation
		IP filters and networking
	Azure Event Hubs Capture feature
		What is an Azure Event Hubs Capture?
		Enabling Event Hub Capture
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 14: Real-Time Data Analysis – Azure Stream Analytics
	Technical requirements
	Introducing Azure Stream Analytics
		Stream ingestions versus stream analysis
		Azure Stream Analytics concepts
	Defining available input and output types
		Creating an Azure Stream Analytics instance in the Azure portal
	Querying data using theAzure Stream Analytics query language
		Writing a query
	Event ordering, checkpoints, and replays
		Event ordering
		Checkpoints and replays
	Common query patterns
		Multiple outputs
		Data aggregation over time
		Counting unique values
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 15: Enterprise Integration – Azure Service Bus
	Technical requirements
	Azure Service Bus fundamentals
		Azure Service Bus versus other messaging services
		Azure Service Bus and Azure Queue Storage
		Azure Service Bus in the Azure portal
		Queues, topics, and relays
		Azure Service Bus design patterns
		Developing solutions with the Azure Service Bus SDK
	Azure Service Bus security
		MI
		RBAC 
	Advanced features of Azure Service Bus
		Dead lettering
		Sessions
		Transactions
	Handling outages and disasters
		DR
		Handling outages
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 16: Using Application Insights to Monitor Your Applications
	Technical requirements
	Using the Azure Application Insights service
		Logging data in the cloud
		Azure Application Insights fundamentals
		Creating an Azure Application Insights instance in the portal
	Monitoring different platforms
		.NET
		Node.js
		Azure Functions
	Using the Logs module
		Accessing the Logs module
	Automating Azure Application Insights
		Alerts
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 17: SQL in Azure – Azure SQL
	Technical requirements
	Differences between Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL
		Azure SQL fundamentals
		Advanced Azure SQL features
		SQL Server on VMs
	Creating and configuring an Azure SQL Database instance
		Creating an Azure SQL Database instance
		Azure SQL features in the portal
	Security features of Azure SQL
		Firewall
		Microsoft Defender for SQL
		Data classification
		Auditing
		Dynamic Data Masking
	Scaling Azure SQL
		Single database
		Elastic pool
		Read scale-out
		Sharding
	Monitoring and tuning
		Monitoring
		Tuning
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 18: Big Data Storage – Azure Data Lake
	Technical requirements
	Understanding ADLS
		ADLS fundamentals
		Creating an ADLS instance
	Storing data in ADLS Gen2
		Using the Azure portal for navigation
		Using SDKs
	Security features of ADLS Gen2
		Authentication and authorization
		Network isolation
	Best practices for working with ADLS
		Performance
		Security
		Resiliency
		Data structure
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Part 4: Performance, Scalability, and Maintainability
Chapter 19: Scaling Azure Applications
	Technical requirements
	Autoscaling, scaling up, scaling out
		Autoscaling
		Scaling up and scaling out
	Scaling Azure App Service
		Manual scaling
		Autoscaling
	Scaling Azure Functions
		Scaling serverless applications
		Azure Functions scaling behavior
	Scaling Azure Cosmos DB
		Autoscaling for provisioned throughput
	Scaling Azure Event Hubs
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 20: Serving Static Content Using Azure CDN
	Technical requirements
	Azure CDN fundamentals
		Working with CDNs
		Creating an Azure CDN in the portal
	Optimization and caching
		Configuring an endpoint
	Developing applications using Azure CDN
		Configuring Azure App Service with Azure CDN
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 21: Managing APIs with Azure API Management
	Technical requirements
	The main concepts of Azure API Management
		API gateway
		Management plane
		Developer portal
	Guidelines for designing APIs
	Basics of Azure API Management policies with examples
		Policy schema
		Provisioning the Azure API Management service
	Automated management of the service
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 22: Building a Scalable Entry Point for Your Service with Azure Front Door
	Technical requirements
	When to use Azure Front Door
	Load balancing with Azure Front Door
	Implementing URL rewrites and redirects
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 23: Azure Application Gateway as a Web Traffic Load Balancer
	Technical requirements
	Azure Application Gateway features
		WAF
		Load balancing
		Multiple-site hosting
		Rewriting URLs and headers
	Configuring routing
	Integrating with web applications
	URL rewriting and redirects
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 24: Distributing Load with Azure Traffic Manager
	Technical requirements
	Using Azure Traffic Manager
		Functions of Azure Traffic Manager
		Creating Azure Traffic Manager in the Azure portal
		Working with Azure Traffic Manager in the Azure portal
	Endpoint monitoring
		nslookup
		Traffic view
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 25: Tips and Tricks in Azure
	Technical requirements
	Using the Azure CLI
	Using Cloud Shell
	Automating infrastructure deployments with ARM templates and Azure Bicep
		A word from the reviewer
	Using continuous deployment for automated deployments to Azure
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Index