40501G - Microsoft Cloud Workshop: Cloud-native applications

Overview

Duration: 1 day

In this workshop, you will build a proof of concept (POC) that will transform an existing PaaS application to a container-based application. This POC will deliver a multi-tenant web app hosting solution leveraging Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Docker containers on Linux nodes, and a migration from MongoDB to CosmosDB.

Objectives

At the end of this workshop, you will be better able to improve the reliability of and increase the release cadence of your container-based applications through time-tested DevOps practices.

Content

Module 1: Whiteboard Design Session - Containers and DevOps

Lessons

Review the customer case study
Call to action: Design a proof of concept solution
Call to action: Present the solution

Module 2: Hands-on Lab - Containers and DevOps

Lessons

Create and run a Docker application
Deploy the solution to Azure Container Service
Scale the application and test HA
Setup load balancing and service discovery
Working with services and routing application traffic

Audience

This workshop is intended for Cloud Architects and IT professionals who have architectural expertise of infrastructure and solutions design in cloud technologies and want to learn more about Azure and Azure services as described in the ‘About this Course’ and ‘At Course Completion’ areas. Those attending this workshop should also be experienced in other non-Microsoft cloud technologies, meet the course prerequisites, and want to cross-train on Azure.

Prerequisites

Workshop content presumes 300-level of architectural expertise of infrastructure and solutions design. We suggest students take this prerequisite prior to attending this workshop.