Azure Microservices with .NET Core for Developers

2h 41mIntermediate2020-02-13

Authors

Rodrigo Díaz Concha

Solutions Architect, Microsoft Regional Director, and Microsoft MVP

Course details

Cloud native architectures, such as microservices, are becoming the de facto standard in the software industry—and, in today's developer environment, it's no longer only architects who need to understand its benefits and challenges. By leveraging this popular architectural pattern, developers and other key application stakeholders can enhance the availability, reliability, and scalability of their software solutions. In this course, instructor Rodrigo Díaz Concha provides an overview of microservices, as well as how to use .NET Core 3.1 to create microservices that can be deployed in Azure. Rodrigo covers key topics such as microservices pros and cons; writing unit tests; microservices containerization with Docker; microservices deployment on top of an orchestrator, such as Azure Service Fabric; and synchronous communication between microservices.

Topics include:
- A comparison of monolithic and microservice architectures
- The main communication mechanisms for microservices
- Designing microservices solutions
- Synchronous communication between microservices
- Writing unit tests for your microservices
- Adding Docker Compose support to a microservices solution
- Deploying microservices

Skills covered

Software ArchitectureCloud DevelopmentWeb Development ToolsAzureSoftware Development ToolsPersonaNetwork AdministrationCloud PlatformsWeb DevelopmentNetwork and System AdministrationCloud ComputingMicrosoftSoftware Development

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Making sense of microservices architecture in a .NET Core and Azure ecosystem

1. Introduction to Microservices

02 - The importance of software architecture
03 - What is monolithic architecture
04 - Service-oriented architecture (SOA) overview
05 - Introduction to the microservices architecture
06 - Microservices architecture principles
07 - Communication between microservices

2. Hands On - Creating Microservices with ASP.Net Core

08 - Designing a microservices solution
09 - Creating a .NET Core solution for microservices
10 - Creating the database context for the products microservice
11 - Creating the products provider
12 - Obtaining all the products in the products microservice
13 - Obtaining a single product in the products microservice
14 - Challenge - Implementing the customers and orders microservices
15 - Solution - Implementing the customers and orders microservices

3. Hands On - Synchronous Communication between Microservices

16 - Preparing and implementing the search service
17 - Invoking the orders microservice from search
18 - Invoking the products microservice from search
19 - Add resiliency to the products microservice with Polly
20 - Challenge - Synchronous communication to the customers microservice
21 - Solution - Synchronous communication to the customers microservice

4. Microservices and DevOps

22 - Microservices unit tests
23 - Improving unit tests
24 - Creating an Azure DevOps project
25 - Configuring the build pipeline
26 - Release pipelines in Azure DevOps
27 - Challenge - Implementing a build pipeline for your microservices
28 - Solution - Implementing a build pipeline for your microservices

5. Microservices Containerization with Docker

29 - Adding Docker support to a microservices solution
30 - Debugging and configuring Docker Compose in a microservices solution
31 - Publishing container images for a microservices solution
32 - Challenge - Containerizing your microservices
33 - Solution - Containerizing your microservices

6. Microservices Deployment

34 - Provision Azure Service Fabric resource
35 - Creating a Docker Compose script for Azure Service Fabric
36 - Installing the certificate and reading the settings from Azure Service Fabric
37 - Creating the release pipeline
38 - Challenge - Deploying microservices to Azure Service Fabric
39 - Solution - Deploying microservices to Azure Service Fabric

Conclusion

40 - Next steps