Everything in this book.
Azure Architecture & .NET Foundations
App Service & ASP.NET Core Hosting
Containerizing .NET Workloads
Azure Functions & Serverless .NET
Azure SQL & EF Core Persistence
Cosmos DB & .NET Patterns
Messaging & Event-Driven Architecture
Azure AI Services & OpenAI Integration for .NET
Identity, Security & Zero Trust
Configuration, Caching & Resilience
DevOps & CI/CD for .NET
Production Operations & Cost Optimization
Azure AI Services &
OpenAI Integration
Azure OpenAI SDK, Semantic Kernel framework, RAG with Azure AI Search, prompt engineering patterns, responsible AI deployment — all from a .NET developer perspective with production-ready patterns.
What you'll master.
Deploy .NET apps across App Service, Functions, AKS, and Container Apps with production-grade configuration, secrets, and health probes.
Master EF Core with Azure SQL, Cosmos DB multi-model patterns, partitioning strategies, and caching with Azure Redis Cache.
Build Azure OpenAI and Semantic Kernel-powered .NET apps. Implement RAG pipelines, prompt engineering, and responsible AI deployment.
Implement Managed Identity, MSAL, Azure AD B2C, Key Vault references, and RBAC — without secrets in configuration files.
Deploy .NET workloads on AKS and Azure Container Apps with KEDA autoscaling, multi-region deployments, and cost-optimised node pools.
Ship .NET to Azure with GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps — multi-environment pipelines, slot swaps, blue-green deployments, and rollback strategies.
Get Started
Ready to build production Azure apps with .NET?
Start with Chapter 1 and work through at your own pace — or jump directly to the AI chapter.