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
Welcome
00:42 Free preview
What will you learn in this course?
01:16 Free preview
Who is the course for and prerequisites
01:24 Free preview
Introduction
01:13
What's Microsoft Azure, and Why Would You Want to Use It?
08:44
Azure Service Models
05:21
Azure Core Services Overview
02:24
Setting Up Your Local Environment: Azure Account, Visual Studio, and the Azure CLI
04:02
Organizing Resources and Managing Resource Organization
09:51
Getting to Know the Azure Portal
08:29
Section recap
03:10
Introduction
01:10
What's an Azure App Service?
01:15
Introducing the Demo Application
05:11
Creating and Managing an Azure App Service via the Azure Portal
08:29
Deploying to an App Service via Visual Studio
04:01
Creating and Managing an Azure App Service via the Azure CLI
09:28
A Few Words on the Azure Cloud Shell
01:26
Deploying to an App Service via the Azure CLI
02:46
Managing and Diagnosing your App Service with Kudu
02:24
Dealing with Application Settings
03:36
Manual Scaling, Autoscale and Automatic Scaling
07:57
Section recap
03:16
Introduction
00:54
What's Azure Storage?
03:30
Creating a Storage Account
07:23
Accessing a Storage Account
09:25
Integrating with Table Storage
13:33
Using Storage Explorer
07:18
Integrating with Blob Storage: Reading Blobs
07:40
Integrating with Blob Storage: Writing Blobs
07:30
Integrating with Queue Storage: Creating a Queue with the Azure CLI
01:52
Integrating with Queue Storage: Sending Messages
05:06
Integrating with Queue Storage: Handling Messages
04:14
Deploying an API that Connects to Azure Storage
04:03
Section recap
02:17
Introduction
00:45
What's Azure SQL?
02:16
Creating a SQL Azure Server and Azure SQL Database
05:34
Connecting to the Database from our Local Development Environment
03:26
Managing the Database with Azure Data Studio
02:05
Connecting to the Database From our API
03:49
Deploying an API with an Azure SQL Database
03:39
Authenticating with Managed Identities
10:41
Working with DefaultAzureCredential
05:51
Section recap
02:56
Introduction
01:01
Remote Debugging on Azure
03:36
Enabling Application Logging in Azure
02:14
Viewing Application Logs with the Log Stream Feature
01:17
Downloading Application Logs with Kudu
01:38
Learning About Application Insights
01:07
Enabling Application Insights
06:54
Querying Logs with Kusto Query Language
05:44
Inspecting Application Health and Performance Data
03:30
Creating an Alert
03:31
Section recap
02:53
Introduction
00:25
What's Azure Monitor?
04:07
Collecting and Inspecting Azure Platform Telemetry Data
04:38
Working with Diagnostic Settings
04:44
Section recap
03:33

Meet Your Instructor

Kevin Dockx

Kevin Dockx

Kevin is a freelance solution architect, author & consultant, living in Antwerp (Belgium). He started working in the IT sector over 20 years ago, and is an 11-time Microsoft MVP. He's focused on architecture & security for web applications & integration components, using .NET and Azure. He's a keen proponent of open-source software. Also: wine.

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