Developing Azure Solutions: 4-Day Virtual Workshop

The course does not require any existing experience with the ASP.NET platform. This course focuses on the architectural considerations and decisions necessary when building a solution in the cloud.

Agenda

Module 1: Overview Of The Microsoft Azure Platform

• Azure Services
• Management Portals

Module 2: Building Application Infrastructure in Azure

• Constructing Azure Virtual Machines
• Azure Virtual Machine Workloads
• Highly Available Azure Virtual Machines
• Virtual Machine Configuration Management
• Customizing Azure Virtual Machine Networking

Module 3: Hosting Web Applications on the Azure Platform

• Azure Web Sites
• Hosting Web Applications in Azure
• Configuring an Azure Web Site
• Publishing an Azure Web Site

Module 4: Storing SQL Data in Azure

• Storing SQL Data in Azure
• Managing SQL Databases in Azure
• Azure SQL Database Tools
• Securing and Recovering an Azure SQL Database Instance

Module 5: Designing Cloud Applications for Resiliency

• Application Design Practices for Highly Available Applications
• Application Analytics
• Building High Performance Applications using ASP.NET
• Common Cloud Application Patterns
• Caching Application Data

Module 6: Storing Tabular Data in Azure

• Azure Storage Overview
• Azure Storage Tables Overview
• Table Entity Transactions

Module 7: Storing and Consuming Files from Azure Storage

• Storage Blobs
• Controlling Access to Storage Blobs and Containers
• Configuring Azure Storage Accounts
• Azure Files

Module 8: Designing a Communication Strategy by Using Queues and Service Bus

• Azure Storage Blobs
• Azure Service Bus

Module 9: Automating Integration with Azure Resources

• Azure SDK Client Libraries
• Scripting Azure Service Management by Using Windows PowerShell
• Azure REST Interface
• Azure Resource Manager

Module 10: Securing Azure Web Applications

• Azure Active Directory
• Azure AD Directories
• Azure AD Multi-Factor Authentication

Labs