lfarci/azure

Sample project to learn about Azure App Service.

About me

Passionate and results-driven Software Engineer specializing in Microsoft technologies, with a focus on C#, .NET, Visual Studio, and Azure. With three years of hands-on experience in the public, banking, and energy sectors in Belgium, I've demonstrated expertise in crafting robust solutions and driving digital innovation.

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Implement Application Insights web tests and alerts

Perform operations on containers and items by using the SDK

Courses

Microsoft Learn

• AZ-204: Develop solutions that use Azure Cosmos DB
• Explore Microsoft .NET SDK v3 for Azure Cosmos DB

Implement policies for APIs

• Introduction Azure API Management
• API Management policy reference
• Explore API Management policies
• How to set or edit Azure API Management policies

Use deployment slots

Description

I should be able to create deployment slots, manage their settings, swap them and configure auto swap.

Objectives

• Configure deployment slots settings
• Use deployment slots (and their settings).

Courses

Microsoft Lean

• Stage a web app deployment for testing and rollback by using App Service deployment slots

Documentation

• Deployment Best Practices
• Set up staging environments in Azure App Service

Configure access to APIs

• Secure APIs by using subscriptions
• Subscriptions in Azure API Management

Implement change feed notifications

Objectives

• Work with change feed using Azure Functions or change feed processor
• Use your provisioned throughput to read from the change feed
• Capture deletes by setting a "soft-delete" flag without your items in place of deletes
• Synchronize changes from any point in time
• Process changes from large containers in parallel by multiple consumers

Courses

Microsoft Learn

• AZ-204: Develop solutions that use Azure Cosmos DB
• Consume an Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL change feed using the SDK
• Handle events with Azure Functions and Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL change feed
• Understand change feed features in the SDK

Documentation

• Reading Azure Cosmos DB change feed

Implement secure and optimized application cache patterns including data sizing, connections, encryption, and expiration

Perform operations on data by using the appropriate SDK

Perform operations like reading and writing blobs using the library
Know common methods used on this different objects
Exam does not test language syntax

Courses

Microsoft Learn

• AZ-204: Develop solutions that use Blob storage
• Work with Azure Blob storage

Documentation

• BlobBaseClient.DownloadContent Method

Implement solutions that use Azure Event Hub

Publish an image to Azure Container Registry

About

• Understanding of the use cases
  • Scalable orchestration systems (Kubernetes)
  • AKS, Azure app service, Azure Batch service fabric
• Choose the ACR service tier and know key differences between them (Basic, standard, and premium)
• Know supported images and artifacts
  • Repository, container, image
  • Windows and Linux images
  • Helm charts (OCI format)
• Azure Container Registry tasks
  • Build
  • Test
  • Push
  • Deploy

Microsoft Learn

• Build and store container images with Azure Container Registry
• az acr repository

Secure app configuration data by using App Configuration or Azure Key Vault

Authenticate and authorize users by using the Microsoft Identity platform

• Explore the Microsoft identity platform
• Application and service principal objects in Microsoft Entra ID

Set the appropriate consistency level for operations

• Explore consistency level a choose a level for a given scenario
  • Strong
  • Bounded Staleness
  • Session
  • Consistent Prefix
  • Eventual

Courses

Microsoft Learn

• AZ-204: Develop solutions that use Azure Cosmos DB
• Explore consistency levels
• Choose the right consistency level
• Develop solutions that use Azure Cosmos DB

Documentation

• Consistency levels in Azure Cosmos DB

Create solutions by using Azure Container Apps

• Use it to
  • Deploy API endpoints
  • Host background processing applications
  • Handle event-driven processing
  • Run microservices
• Build application to dynamically scale based on
  • HTTP traffic
  • Event-driven processing
  • CPU or memory load
  • Any KEDA-supported scaler

Implement static website hosting

Courses

Microsoft Learn

• AZ-204: Develop solutions that use Blob storage
• Create a Content Delivery Network for your Website with Azure CDN and Blob Services
• Explore Azure Blob storage

Documentation

• Static website hosting in Azure Storage
• Host a static website in Azure Storage

Configure web app Transport Layer Security (TLS) settings

Description 🔍

I should be able to manage Azure App Service SSL certificate and setup a public or a private custom domain.

Objectives 🎯

• Buy and import App Service certificate
• Import a certificate from Key Vault
• Upload a private/ public certificate
• Renew a expiring/uploaded/App service certificate
• Renew a certificate imported from Key Vault
• Manage App Service certificates
• Automate with scripts
• When to use a Key Vault instead of uploading them to Azure Service
• Knowing the basics around certificates
• Configure a custom domain

Courses 📖

Microsoft Learn

• Use a TLS/SSL certificate in your code in Azure App Service

Pluralsight

• Securing a Web App with SSL
• Configuring a Custom Domain
• Configuring a TLS/SSL Binding

Implement solutions that use Azure Service Bus

Configure web app settings and connection strings

Description

I should be able to configure a new Azure App Service instance.

Objectives

• Add and edit app settings
• Add and edit app settings in bulk (JSON)
• Add and edit connection strings
• Add and edit connection strings in bulk (JSON)
• Read secrets from an Azure Key Vault
• Stack settings (runtime, language version, SDK version)
• Platform settings (when and why they should be enabled)
• Debugging (enable remote debugging)
• Read related Azure App Service documentation

Courses

Microsoft Learn

• Configure web app settings

Documentation

• az webapp config
• Configure an App Service app
• Environment variables and app settings in Azure App Service

Monitor and analyze metrics, logs, and traces

Microsoft Learn

• Log Analytics tutorial

Enable diagnostics logging

About

• Familiarity with all the different types of logs and what information is in each of them
  • Application logging on Windows
  • Application logging on Linux
  • Application logging on containers
  • Web server logging
• Add log messages in code
• Stream logs
• Access log files

Microsoft Learn

• Capture Web Application Logs with App Service Diagnostics Logging

Documentation

• Monitor Azure App Service

Implement solutions that interact with Microsoft Graph

• Explore Microsoft Graph
• Paging Microsoft Graph data in your app

Implement Managed Identities for Azure resources

Develop code that uses keys, secrets, and certificates stored in Azure Key Vault

Run containers by using Azure Container Instance

• Use cases and features
  • Fast startup times
  • Public IP connectivity and DNS name
  • Hypervisor-level security
  • Custom sizes
  • Persistent storage
  • Linux and Windows containers
  • Co-scheduled groups
  • Virtual network deployment
• Know when to use AKS instead of ACI
• Work with ACI
  • Deployment (when to use ARM template or YAML file)
  • Container groups
  • Resource allocation
  • Networking
  • Storage
  • Common scenarios
    • App and monitoring container
    • Web app container and a container polling latest content from source control

Microsoft Learn

• Exercise - Use data volumes
• az container

Configure cache and expiration policies for Azure Cache for Redis

Microsoft Learn

Modules

• What is Azure Cache for Redis?
• Develop for Azure Cache for Redis
• Interact with Azure Cache for Redis by using .NET
• Configure Azure Cache for Redis

Documentation

• Cache-Aside Pattern
• Quickstart: Use Azure Cache for Redis in .NET Framework
• Configure data persistence for an Azure Cache for Redis instance

Set and retrieve properties and metadata

Courses

Microsoft Learn

• AZ-204: Develop solutions that use Blob storage

Documentation

• Setting and retrieving properties and metadata for Blob service resources
• Naming and Referencing Containers, Blobs, and Metadata

Create and configure an Azure Functions app

About

• Implement the function code
• Familiarity the structure of functions code and configuration
• Choose a pricing plan
• Manage scaling

Implement input and output bindings

About

• Binding direction (in and out and inout)
• Configure various bindings and triggers for a function
• Configure a function app using function.json (JavaScript, Python, PowerShell)
• Configure a function app using in-line decorators in the code (C# and Java)

Create and manage container images for solutions

About

• Quick tasks: build and push images to a repository completely in Azure (without a Docker engine installed)
• Automatically triggered tasks
  • Trigger on source code update in a repository
  • Trigger on base image update (Use ACR task to track dependency on a base image)
  • Image build
  • Multi-step task (define tasks using YAML)
  • az acr command

Create an Azure API Management instance

Microsoft Learn

• Build serverless API with functions API management
• Explore API Management
• Self-hosted gateway overview

Create and implement shared access signatures

• Discover shared access signatures
• Grant limited access to Azure Storage resources using shared access signatures (SAS)
• Control access to Azure Storage with shared access signatures
• Create a service SAS for a blob with .NET

Authenticate and authorize users and apps by using Microsoft Entra ID

Deploy code to a web app

Description

I should be able to deploy code to an existing Azure App Service. It can be done manually using the CLI, ZipDeploy or FTP/S. Or it can be done automatically from a CI/CD pipeline.

I should also be able to setup deployment slots and configure them.

Objectives

• Deploy code manually using a ZIP or a WAR.
• Deploy code manually using FTP/S.
• Deploy code manually from a local Git repository.
• Deploy code automatically by using a deployment source.
• Deploy code automatically from a GitHub Actions workflow.
• Read the Deployment and configuration section of the documentation.

Courses

Microsoft Lean

• Publish a web app to Azure with Visual Studio
• Deploy and run a containerized web app with Azure App Service
• Build and deploy applications to Azure by using GitHub Actions
• Examine Azure App Service

Pluralsight

• Deploying Code to App Service Web Apps

Documentation

• Deployment Best Practices
• Deploy files to App Service
• Deploy your app to Azure App Service using FTP/S
• Local Git deployment to Azure App Service
• Continuous deployment to Azure App Service
• Deploy to App Service using GitHub Actions
• Deploy apps from GitHub to Azure

Samples

• deploy-ftp.sh
• Create an app and deploy code from GitHub

Implement function triggers by using data operations, timers, and webhooks

About

• Create different triggers and binding for different configurations and services
• Map the configured triggers and binding to the code in functions
• Understand how the function app configuration works with functions code

Implement Azure Content Delivery Network endpoints and profiles

Implement solutions that use Azure Event Grid

Implement storage policies and data lifecycle management

Courses

Microsoft Learn

• AZ-204: Develop solutions that use Blob storage
• Manage the Azure Blob storage lifecycle
• Implement Blob storage lifecycle policies
• Discover Blob storage lifecycle policies
• Rehydrate blob data from the archive tier

Documentation

• Optimize costs by automatically managing the data lifecycle
• Blob rehydration from the archive tier

Create and document APIs

Implement solutions that use Azure Queue Storage queues

Create an Azure App Service Web App

Description

I should be able to create a new Azure Service Web on Azure using the portal or CLIs.

Objectives

• Create an Azure App Service using the Azure Portal
• Create an Azure App Service using PowerShell
• Create an Azure App Service using Azure CLI
• Create an Azure App Service using an ARM Template
• Understand the difference between an Azure Service Web App and an Azure Service Plan.
• Know what pricing tier you should choose in a given scenario.

Courses

Microsoft Learn

• Deploy a website to Azure with Azure App Service
• Publish a web app to Azure with Visual Studio
• AZ-204: Implement Azure App Service web apps

Pluralsight

• Create Azure App Service Web Apps
• Labs

Documentation

• Azure App Service plan overview

Implement autoscaling

About

• What is autoscaling?
• When should it be used?
• Enable autoscaling
• Add scale conditions
• Create scale rules
• Monitor autoscaling activity
• Azure service plan pricing tiers scaling limits
• Know best practices
  • Ensure the maximum and minimum values are different and have an adequate margin between them (this is to avoid flapping, we should be able to identify when this is happening and fix this)
  • Choose the appropriate statistic for your diagnostics metric
  • Choose the thresholds carefully for all metric types
  • Remember considerations for scaling when multiple rules are configured in a profile
  • Always select a save default instance count
  • Configure autoscale notifications

Courses

Microsoft Learn

• Scale an App Service web app to efficiently meet demand with App Service scale up and scale out
• Azure App Service Local Cache overview

Configure an app or service to use Application Insights

Microsoft Lean

Modules

• Instrument an app for monitoring
• Monitor app performance

Documentation

• Application Insights overview
• Application monitoring for Azure App Service overview
• Application Insights API for custom events and metrics