Introduction

Chapter scope

This chapter teaches about crucial tools and services in Microsoft Azure for software developers. Here is a high-level gist of what we will learn:

• Different tools to interact and manage Microsoft Azure, such as Azure PowerShell and Azure CLI.
• Azure App Service and Azure Function app to host our applications in a PaaS manner.
• Azure Applications Insights to monitor our applications in production to identify faults and issues.
• Azure SQL services and Azure Storage account to store our structured and non-structured data.
• Azure Key Vault to store our secrets.
• Azure Cognitive services to add AI abilities to our application.

After these lessons, we will be equipped with powerful Azure cloud knowledge to apply to daily problems as software developers.

In the illustration above, we can see the symbols of the services we will learn.

• Azure Storage account
• Azure App Service
• Azure Application Insights
• Azure Cognitive services
• Azure Functions
• Azure Key Vault
• Azure SQL