Containers and Azure Service Fabric

Key Information

Duration: 5 days

Course Learning Skills: Azure

Brief

This course takes a detailed look at how to plan, implement, and operate scalable and reliable microservices to Azure Service Fabric. We take a detailed look at the development issues in Web API to create stateful and stateless microservices and see how to use the actor model to achieve concurrency and re-entrancy. We also cover important practical issues such as orchestration, containerisation, reliability, up-time and instrumentation for DevOps.

Duration

5 days

Prerequisites

• Solid C# programming experience
• Awareness of cloud computing beneficial, but not essential

What you’ll learn

• Creating containerized applications
• Creating microservices using Web API
• Understanding Azure Service Fabric
• Creating MSA applications on Azure Service Fabric
• Working with Actors

Course details

Introduction to Containerisation

• Containers vs. VMs
• Docker essential concepts
• Installing Docker on Windows and/or Linux
• Docker Images and Containers
• Understanding Docker images

Dockerfiles

• Creating Docker images
• Running Docker containers
• Repositories
• Working with Docker Hub

Digging Deeper into Docker

• Docker Compose
• Docker Swarm
• Docker security
• DevOps considerations

Getting Started with Microservices

• Monolithic vs. microservices
• Microservice developer principles
• Microservice DevOps principles
• Microservice Architecture

Creating On-Premise Microservices

• REST essentials, Creating REST applications using ASP.NET Core Web API
• Web API technical details
• Interactions between REST services

Going Further with Web API

• OWIN pipeline
• Middleware
• Services
• CORS
• Security issues
• Getting Started with Azure Service Fabric
• Essentials of cloud computing
• Azure characteristics

Getting started with Azure Service Fabric

• Using Azure Service Fabric CLI
• Azure Service Development
• Stateless services
• Stateful services
• Reliable services
• Service communication
• Common deign patterns and idioms

Actors

• Overview of actors
• The Virtual Actor platform
• Service Fabric Reliable Actors
• Understanding the Reliable Actors API
• Concurrency and re-entrancy

A Closer at Look State

• Options for managing state in Azure
• Windows Azure SQL Database
• Azure Table Storage
• Azure Queue Storage

Practical Issues

• Testing
• CI/CD
• Monitoring and diagnostics
• Operational management

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