Welcome
What will you learn in this course?
Who is the course for and prerequisites
Getting Started: Azure for Developers
Get started with Microsoft Azure as a Software Engineer
About This Course
As a developer these days, you have to know Azure, as you're bound to run into it in your day-to-day job: cloud computing is a given. In this course, you'll learn the basics of Azure, which every developer should know about. You'll learn how Azure resources and services are organized and how you can create, manage and scale an App Service to host a web app or API. You'll learn how to store your data, from table storage and blob storage over queue storage to storage in an Azure SQL database, including which storage option best fits a specific scenario. Lastly, you'll learn how to investigate potential issues in your codebase by learning how to configure remote debugging and a variety of logging options, including integrating your codebase with Application Insights, querying logs, creating alerts and inspecting telemetry data.
Course Curriculum
4h 25m 7 sections
Introduction
What's Microsoft Azure, and Why Would You Want to Use It?
Azure Service Models
Azure Core Services Overview
Setting Up Your Local Environment: Azure Account, Visual Studio, and the Azure CLI
Organizing Resources and Managing Resource Organization
Getting to Know the Azure Portal
Section recap
Introduction
What's an Azure App Service?
Introducing the Demo Application
Creating and Managing an Azure App Service via the Azure Portal
Deploying to an App Service via Visual Studio
Creating and Managing an Azure App Service via the Azure CLI
A Few Words on the Azure Cloud Shell
Deploying to an App Service via the Azure CLI
Managing and Diagnosing your App Service with Kudu
Dealing with Application Settings
Manual Scaling, Autoscale and Automatic Scaling
Section recap
Introduction
What's Azure Storage?
Creating a Storage Account
Accessing a Storage Account
Integrating with Table Storage
Using Storage Explorer
Integrating with Blob Storage: Reading Blobs
Integrating with Blob Storage: Writing Blobs
Integrating with Queue Storage: Creating a Queue with the Azure CLI
Integrating with Queue Storage: Sending Messages
Integrating with Queue Storage: Handling Messages
Deploying an API that Connects to Azure Storage
Section recap
Introduction
What's Azure SQL?
Creating a SQL Azure Server and Azure SQL Database
Connecting to the Database from our Local Development Environment
Managing the Database with Azure Data Studio
Connecting to the Database From our API
Deploying an API with an Azure SQL Database
Authenticating with Managed Identities
Working with DefaultAzureCredential
Section recap
Introduction
Remote Debugging on Azure
Enabling Application Logging in Azure
Viewing Application Logs with the Log Stream Feature
Downloading Application Logs with Kudu
Learning About Application Insights
Enabling Application Insights
Querying Logs with Kusto Query Language
Inspecting Application Health and Performance Data
Creating an Alert
Section recap
Introduction
What's Azure Monitor?
Collecting and Inspecting Azure Platform Telemetry Data
Working with Diagnostic Settings
Section recap
Course Details
Level Getting Started
Duration 4h 25m
Rating 
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Kevin Dockx
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