Microsoft Azure for .NET Developers

<div>Microsoft Azure is the premiere cloud platform from Microsoft. It is an excellent space for hosting .NET applications and the modern .NET developer must be comfortable navigating the different services and features and using the cloud hosting platform to produce top-notch enterprise applications.</div><div><br></div><div>In this course, you will get familiar with Microsoft Azure, it's interface, and various services. You will provision and then use Microsoft Azure resources and services and have an appreciation for how everything connects and can contribute to your stable and modern application being developed.</div><div><br></div><div>Along the way, you will learn how to:</div><div><ul><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Navigate and customize Azure Portal</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Lean to use Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Provision Virtual Machines on Azure</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Provision and use Azure App Services</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Monitor web applications for performance and potential errors using Application Insights</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Scale applications and databases based on load</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Setup Deployment Slots</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Setup continuous deployment with GitHub Actions and Azure Web App Services</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">How to manage application secrets in .NET Applications</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Use Azure SQL and understand the different hosting models</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Use Azure Blob Storage</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Use Azure Cosmos DB</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Use Azure Service Bus and Queues</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Build and Deploy Azure Functions</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Integrate Advanced .NET Application Security with Azure AD and Azure AD B2C</span></li></ul></div><div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">By the end of this course, you should have a fundamental understanding of what Microsoft Azure is and hits many services, and third-party tools can best serve your context.</span></div><div><br></div><div>This course aligns with training required for the Exam AZ-204: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure examination, though it is not an official training guide. It is perfect for you if you need to know enough about developing with Azure to be functional in your workspace, without taking the exam.</div><div><br></div><div>Having a foundation in ASP.NET Core development will come as a plus, because we will be focusing less on the fundamentals and only be making modifications to an existing application as needed to complete the tasks in this course. If you are unfamiliar with ASP.NET Core, you may visit the course Complete ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework Development, which will give you a very beginner friendly start to the ASP.NET Core ecosystem and allow you to get up to speed quickly.</div><div><br></div><div>Along the way, we also author some original and unique applications to demonstrate how integrations work between our code and Microsoft Azure APIs.</div>

What you'll learn:

• How to integrate with Microsoft Azure APIs and SDKs
• Microsoft Azure Portal and Resource Management
• Accessing Microsoft Azure APIs from .NET Core Application
• How To Publish .NET Core App to Azure
• How to Provision and Manipulate Azure SQL Database
• How to use Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
• How to use Microsoft Azure Services Bus (Message Queues)
• Understand Microsoft Azure Pricing Models and Locations
• Microsoft Azure AD (Enterprise and B2C)