You're reading from Pragmatic Microservices with C# and Azure

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Published in May 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835088296

Pages 508 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Author (1):

Christian Nagel

Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Creating Microservices with .NET

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to .NET Aspire and Microservices

3. Chapter 2: Minimal APIs – Creating REST Services

4. Chapter 3: Writing Data to Relational and NoSQL Databases

5. Chapter 4: Creating Libraries for Client Applications

6. Part 2: Hosting and Deploying

7. Chapter 5: Containerization of Microservices

8. Chapter 6: Microsoft Azure for Hosting Applications

9. Chapter 7: Flexible Configurations

10. Chapter 8: CI/CD – Publishing with GitHub Actions

11. Chapter 9: Authentication and Authorization with Services and Clients

12. Part 3: Troubleshooting and Scaling

13. Chapter 10: All About Testing the Solution

14. Chapter 11: Logging and Monitoring

15. Chapter 12: Scaling Services

16. Part 4: More communication options

17. Chapter 13: Real-Time Messaging with SignalR

18. Chapter 14: gRPC for Binary Communication

19. Chapter 15: Asynchronous Communication with Messages and Events

20. Chapter 16: Running Applications On-Premises and in the Cloud

21. Index

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To get the most out of this book

You will need to know C# and .NET and have some fundamental knowledge about Microsoft Azure. The following tools and applications need to be installed:

Tool	Installation
Visual Studio 2022 (optional)	https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/
Visual Studio Code	https://code.visualstudio.com/download
Docker Desktop	https://docs.docker.com/desktop/install/windows-install/ https://docs.docker.com/desktop/install/mac-install/ https://docs.docker.com/desktop/install/linux-install/
Microsoft Azure subscription	https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/
Azure CLI	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli
Azure Developer CLI	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/developer/azure-developer-cli/install-azd
Azure Cosmos DB emulator	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/how-to-develop-emulator
.NET Aspire	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/aspire/fundamentals/setup-tooling

Visual Studio 2022 is the only software on this list that requires Windows. All other tools can be used on Windows, macOS, or Linux. On platforms other than Windows, you can use Visual Studio Code or other tools to work with .NET and C#.

To use .NET Aspire with Visual Studio, at least version 17.10.0 needs to be installed. You can use Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition.

Starting with Chapter 6, you need a Microsoft Azure subscription. You can activate Microsoft Azure for free at https://azure.microsoft.com/free, which gives you about USD 200 in Azure credit that’s available for the first 30 days and several services that can be used for free for the time after. If you have a Visual Studio Professional or Enterprise subscription, you also get a free amount of Azure resources every month. You just need to activate this with your Visual Studio subscription: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/subscriptions/.

If you are using the digital version of this book, we advise you to type the code yourself or access the code from the book’s GitHub repository (a link is available in the next section). Doing so will help you avoid any potential errors related to the copying and pasting of code.