.NET Microservices in Azure Container Apps

Get the power of Kubernetes without the complexity. This guide shows how to build and deploy scalable .NET microservices on Azure Container Apps.

#1about 4 minutes

Understanding serverless computing and its cost benefits

Serverless computing abstracts away infrastructure, enables automatic scaling, and offers a pay-per-execution cost model which is more efficient than traditional computing.

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Introducing Azure Container Apps as a Kubernetes abstraction

Azure Container Apps simplify container deployment by abstracting Kubernetes complexity, though this comes with some limitations for complex scenarios.

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Exploring common use cases for Azure Container Apps

Azure Container Apps are suitable for building microservices, web apps, event-driven processing, and background processing tasks.

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Understanding the high-level architecture and components

Container apps live within an environment, share a virtual network, and are composed of revisions, replicas, and containers, which can use sidecar patterns like Dapr.

#5about 3 minutes

Deploying container apps with Azure CLI and AZD

You can deploy container apps from an existing image, local source code, or a GitHub repository using either the standard Azure CLI or the simpler Azure Developer CLI (AZD).

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Demo of deploying a simple .NET app using AZD

A step-by-step demonstration shows how to initialize and deploy a .NET weather forecast API to Azure Container Apps using the `azd init` and `azd up` commands.

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Managing frontend and backend microservices communication

This demo showcases a Blazor frontend communicating with a .NET backend API, explaining how to manage ingress and public endpoints for different services.

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Implementing service-to-service invocation using Dapr

A demonstration of two microservices communicating via Dapr's service-to-service invocation, showing how messages are passed and how the system behaves when one service is stopped.

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A summary of the Azure Developer CLI workflow

The Azure Developer CLI (AZD) simplifies deployment by generating an Aspire manifest, provisioning resources, and deploying the application with a single command.