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Use this collection of best practices and tips for assessing the health of a solution. This book provides detailed techniques and instructions to quickly diagnose aspects of your Azure cloud solutions.
The initial chapters of this book introduce you to the many facets of Microsoft Azure, explain why and how building for the cloud differs from on-premise development, and outline the need for a comprehensive strategy to debugging and profiling in Azure. You learn the major types of blades (FaaS, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS), how different views can be created for different scenarios, and you will become familiar with the Favorites section, Cost Management & Billing blade, support, and Cloud Shell. You also will know how to leverage Application Insights for application performance management, in order to achieve a seamless cloud development experience. Application Insights, Log Analytics, and database storage topics are covered. The authors further guide you on identity security with Azure AD and continuous delivery with CI and CD covered in detail along with the capabilities of Azure DevOps. And you are exposed to external tooling and trouble shooting in a production environment. 
After reading this book, you will be able to apply methods to key Azure services, including App Service (Web Apps, Function Apps, and Logic Apps), Cloud Services, Azure Container Service,  Azure Active Directory, Azure Storage, Azure SQL Database, Cosmos DB, Log Analytics, and many more.

What You Will Learn

• Debug and manage the performance of your applications 
  
• Leverage Application Insights for application performance management
  
• Extend and automate CI/CD with the help of various build tools, including Azure DevOps,  TeamCity, and Cake bootstrapper
  

Who This Book Is For

Application developers, designers, and DevOps personnel who want to find a one-stop shop in best practices for managing their application's performance in the cloud and for debugging the issues accordingly

Cloud Debugging and Profiling in Microsoft Azure: Application Performance Management in the Cloud

Chapter 1:  Building Solutions in the Azure Cloud

Chapter Goal: The first chapter will introduce the reader to the many facets of Microsoft Azure, why and how building for the cloud differs from on-prem development, and the need for a comprehensive strategy to debugging and profiling in Azure.

We will cover the major types of blades (FaaS, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS).

No of pages: 20         

Sub -Topics

1.      Microsoft Azure overview

2.      FaaS (Functions as a Service/Code as a Service) - a tour of Azure Functions and Logic Apps

3.      SaaS (Software as a Service) - Web Apps, Office365

4.      PaaS (Platform as a Service) - Cloud Services

5.      IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) - Virtual Machines, SQL Server

  Chapter 2:  The Azure Portal

Chapter Goal: The different Azure blades have many common features. This chapter will explore the Azure portal and some of the common features. The dashboard will be explained and how different views can be created for different scenarios. The Favorites section, the Cost Management & Billing blade, support, and Cloud Shell will all be introduced. The goal of the chapter is to get the reader comfortable with navigating the portal and feeling less overwhelmed, especially if this is the first time they've used the portal.

No of pages: 35

Sub - Topics    

1.       Azure portal - what is a blade?

2.      Dashboard

3.      Navigation - favorites, subscription filtering, and searching

4.      You're not alone - help and support

5.      Cost management

6.       Cloud shell

 

Chapter 3:  Services in the Cloud

Chapter Goal: Using examples in Azure Functions and Logic Apps, this chapter will provide an example of building an Azure Function and calling it from a Logic App. The logging and debugging capabilities will be explored in the appropriate blades.

No of pages: 25

Sub - Topics   

1.      What is serverless?

2.      Azure Functions

1. Logic Apps
2. Using tags for billing

 

Chapter 4: Application Insights and Log Analytics

Chapter Goal: Using the example built in Chapter 2, we will apply Application Insights and use it to monitor the solution.

No of pages: 20

Sub - Topics:  

1.       Application Insights overview

2.      Adding to Azure Functions

3.      Adding Log Analytics to a Logic App

 

 

Chapter 5: Databases and Storage

Chapter Goal: Building upon chapters 1 and 2, persistent storage will be incorporated into the example. Different implementations will be explored, including Azure SQL Database, Azure Cosmos DB, and Azure Storage Tables.

No of pages: 25

Sub - Topics:

1.       Azure SQL Database

2.       Azure Cosmos DB

3.      Azure Storage Tables

 

 

Chapter 6: Azure Web App

Chapter Goal:             An Azure Web App will now be added to the example, and we'll expand on the Application Insights capabilities, including custom events.

No of pages: 20

Sub - Topics:

1.      Overview of the Web App (functional)

2.      App Service blade overview - default and adding new graphs

3.      Diagnose and solve problems

 

 

Chapter 7: Identity Security with Azure AD

Chapter Goal: Azure AD security will be added to the solution. OpenID will be used to secure the Azure Web App. The Logic App and Azure Function will be secured to only be accessible from the Web App (not directly to the user).

No of pages: 20

Sub - Topics:

1.      Overview of Azure AD

2.      Tracking user activity

3.      AD Connect Health

4.      AD reporting

 

Chapter 8: Continuous Delivery

Chapter Goal: CI, CD will be covered. Capabilities of VSTS (covering Git, TFVC) will be shown, with the help of Build and Deployment. The chapter will focus on getting a better understanding of the state of a solution under change. What is currently deployed and where is it? How does VSTS and the Azure portal relate, and how can you get a complete view of the solution?

No of pages: 25

Sub - Topics:

1.      Introduction to VSTS

2.      Projects and dashboards

3.      Code - TFVC

4.      Code - Git

5.      Work, Wiki, Test - How these can be used to better understand the development process

6.      Build

7.      Release

 

  Chapter 9:  External Tooling

Chapter Goal: Extend and automate CI, CD with the help of various build tools, viz. VSTS, TeamCity, and Cake bootstrapper.

No of pages: 15

Sub - Topics:

1.      Azure portal dashboard - widgets

2.      VSTS - plugins

 

 

Chapter 10: Visualizing the Health of a Solution

Chapter Goal: We cover troubleshooting in a production environment.

No of pages: 18

Sub - Topics:

1.      Remote combining reports for a complete picture

2.      Combining reports for a complete picture

3.      Disaster recovery and versioning of applications in a solution

4.      Enterprise reporting