Master Class: Designing and Implementing Cloud Native Applications using Microsoft Azure (DICNMA) Online

Kursinhalt

• Introduction to Cloud Native Applications & the Cloud Maturity Model
• Container Essentials & Configuration Management
• Developing & Publishing Microservices using Azure Container Apps (ACA)
• Stateful Microservices using Azure Functions
• NoSQL Data & Event storage using Cosmos DB
• Designing and Implementing Message based & Event Driven Apps
• Using Distributed Application Runtime - Dapr
• Optimizing and Securing Access using Api Management & Application Gateway
• Connecting Real Time Micro Frontends using Event Grid

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Voraussetzungen

Course participants who want to successfully complete the labs should have acquired knowledge and experience of the knowledge taught in Developing solutions for Microsoft Azure (AZ-204T00). Topics marked with RECAP are brief summaries of AZ-204 content as refreshers. DevSecOps relevant topics are covered in a separate course.

Zielgruppe

Azure Developers & Software Architects

Detaillierter Kursinhalt

Introduction to Cloud Native Applications & Cloud Maturity Model

• What are Cloud Native Applications
• Cloud Maturity Model: Monolith vs Microservices Architecture
• Clean Architecture
• Introduction to .NET Aspire: Orchestration, Components, Tooling
• Microservices Communication Patterns
• Architecture Overview of the Sample App & Services
• Cloud Architecture Design Patterns
• Container Hosting & DevOps
• Provisioning of Azure Resources using Azure CLI & Bicep
• Introduction to Azure Cost Management

Container Essentials & Configuration Management

• Docker Development Workflow: Multistage Build, Run & Debug Recap
• Container builds using Azure Container Registry
• Using docker-compose.yaml to run multiple containers for local development
• Kubernetes Developer Essentials
• Container Configuration Management (Env Variables, Key Vault & Azure App Config Service)
• Understanding the Sidecar Pattern
• Optimizing .NET 8 Container Size using chiseled, trim and aot
• Container Security Patching

Developing & Publishing Microservices using Azure Container Apps (ACA)

• Azure Container Apps Introduction
• Azure Container Apps vs Kubernetes
• Publish Microservices (Ingress, Egress) and manage Revisions
• Secrets, Managed Identities & Service Connectors
• Using Azure App Configuration in Azure Container Apps
• Task Automation using Jobs
• Scaling & KEDA (Kubernetes Event Driven Auto-Scaling)
• Stateful Apps using Volume Mounts & Persistent Storage
• Microsoft Entra ID Easy Authentication
• Health Probes, Monitoring, Logging & Observability

Stateful Microservices using Azure Functions

• OData, Open API Support and Dependency Injection
• Hosting: Serverless vs Containers
• Environment Variables, Key Vault, and App Configuration
• Using Managed Identities and Service Connector to access Azure Resources
• Implementing and monitoring Durable Functions to implement long running processes
• Azure Durable Entities, Aggregation & Virtual Actors
• Publishing Azure Functions to Azure Container Apps

NoSQL Data & Event storage using Cosmos DB

• From Relational to NoSQL: Do's and Don’ts
• Partitioning Strategies & Performance Optimization
• Domain Driven Design (DDD) Basics & Bounded Context Pattern
• Using SDKs to interact with Cosmos DB
• Using Data Api Builder to expose Cosmos DB
• Implementing an Event Store using Event Sourcing
• Creating Materialized Views using Materialized Views Builder
• Optimizing Read/Write Performance with Change Feed & CQRS

Designing and Implementing Message- & Event Driven Apps

• Introduction to Messaging
• Message Types and Channels
• Introduction to Event Driven Architecture (EDA)
• Event Types: Domain-, Integration-, Cloud Events
• Publishing & Subscribing Events using an Event Bus
• Distributed Transactions
• Saga: Orchestration, Choreography
• Common Message Brokers in Azure

Using Distributed Application Runtime - Dapr

• Introduction to Dapr
• Understanding Dapr Architecture & Building Blocks
• Developer Environment Setup, Debugging & State Management
• Using Dapr Components in Azure Container Apps
• Service Invocation & Bindings
• Pub/Sub Messaging
• Secrets and Configuration
• Azure Functions & Dapr Bindings
• Dapr Actors & Saga
• Observability and Distributed Tracing

Optimizing and Securing Access using Api Management & Application Gateway

• API Management (APIM) Recap
• API Versions and Revisions using Azure Container Apps
• Authenticating to Backend Services
• Understanding Gateway Pattern and Backends for Frontend Pattern (BFF)
• Implement BFF using APIM and GraphQL

Connecting Real Time Micro Frontends using Event Grid

• Micro Frontends: Introduction & Benefits
• Publish the Shop Micro Frontend to Azure Container Apps
• Real-time connected Micro Frontend using Azure Event Grid and SignalR
• Connect the Real Time Kitchen Dashboard
• Connect the Order Status Micro Frontend