
Simple topics are going to be covered however very powerful for app development specially web apps to easily create, build, maintain. secure and publish your web application in much less time and effort!
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Quick overview on the definition of cloud computing and what does Microsoft Azure have to provide.
Learn how to create your account on Azure and access your free trial and free features
Quick exploration for Azure Portal
How to create you web app through Azure portal
A quick overview about MVC .NET
Steps for creating our MVC application
A quick implementation for a simple form that gets downloaded to PDF, just adding some working code to see how it goes when we publish on Azure in the next lecture!
Step by step walk through on how to simply publish your application on Azure within few minutes!
Learn the steps of creating a custom domain using GoDaddy and bind it with our Azure app
Learn step by step on how to get an SSL certificate and apply to your website on Azure.
Publish your app to the staging deployment slot using Visual Studio, selecting the existing Azure app, publish to staging, update code, and republish before moving to production.
Exploring the variety of apps that you can create using App Services
Explaining what are App Service Plans and how to decide which one to use
Introducing Cloud Explorer on Visual Studio
Log in to Sendgrid, create an API key with chosen permissions, and copy the key. Save the key securely and use it to authorize Sendgrid in your code.
Log in to the Sendgrid dashboard to view email statistics, monitor deliveries and opens, troubleshoot failures, and review activity details while managing templates and marketing campaigns via the left menu.
Learn how to create and deploy a PHP application on Azure using the PHP starter kit, configure database, credentials, and settings, and prepare for editing and redeploying.
Create your own Azure account, build a live web application, and secure it with HTTPS and a custom domain. Practice, explore more services, and share your results.
This course is your first step to the thousand miles, it will help you get started fast with Microsoft Azure and get you familiar with the tools and services provided and start publishing your first application on the cloud with much less time and effort! It will also give you some tips on how to secure your web site and apply custom domain to your applications.
By the end of this course
You will have an understanding of what cloud computing is all about
You will be able to have your own Azure account
You will be familiar with Azure's big picture and have a good understanding of almost all the services provided by Azure
You will be able to create your own application using Azure portal
You will have the ability to create custom domains and bind it to your Azure app
You will learn how to apply https to your web applications and how to get your own SSL Certificate
You will get to explore App Services Tools like deployment slots, app service plans, using SendGrid tool integrated with Azure
You will learn to create your own virtual machine
You will learn how to simply publish apps of different languages like .NET and PHP.
And much more upon student demands and more to come according to students' requests
You will be good to go for your own Azure cloud journey!
The course structure consists of:
Quick overview
Learn by practice and explore everything with walkthrough in Azure portal
More details and demos as we move on through the course
The big picture of Azure services
Student demands, which means this course is constantly being updated with more details and explanations for students specially if they requested some more clarification on any subject within the course
The course coding examples are developed using C# and MVC .NET application, you will find a quick overview of MVC and how to use Visual Studio to create your app
And finally, this course is designed in a way that you will be able to grasp all knowledge needed to get you started with Azure in less time and effort, I tend to keep this course concise and as short as possible but with all the info you need so that busy developers and students can get to learn what they need and within their short schedule
Enjoy!