Modernizing Your Websites with Azure Platform as a Service

Pluralsight
Course Summary
"The Cloud" is an increasingly attractive proposition for hosting websites online, and Microsoft Azure is an absolute standout. Their "platform as a service" offerings for both websites and databases offer fantastic features, massive scalability, and attractive pricing. But how will you migrate your sites? What will it cost? And how about security? This course answers those questions and paves the way to move from traditional hosting and into Microsoft's cloud.
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Course Description
"The Cloud" holds enormous promise for individuals and organizations alike to transform the way they manage assets on the web. However, with the excitement also comes uncertainty; does it take much work to make my websites cloud-ready? How does it change my deployment? What will it actually cost me? This course sets out to answer all of these unknowns and paves a path to move from traditional hosting models into Microsoft's Azure cloud. This course works through the logistics of moving websites (including databases) to Azure, and highlights some of the common pitfalls experienced along the way. Moving to Azure can be a simple process; in many cases existing websites can go to the cloud with little effort. However, this also falls well short of the value proposition of cloud computing, so the course also looks at how sites can begin to leverage new features to maximize speed, scalability, and cost efficiency. Beyond just making software work in the Azure environment, this course demonstrates how processes such as deployment, configuration, and monitoring can be streamlined. There are many new concepts and implications for commoditized cloud hosting, and this course helps viewers learn the tricks to make their transition to the cloud successful.
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Course Syllabus
The Azure Cloud Value Proposition- 34m 57s
—Overview 2m 33s
—The New World Order of Cloud 4m 2s
—Traditional Capacity Planning and Cost 5m 32s
—The Value Proposition of PaaS 7m 17s
—Understanding Cloud Pricing 5m 39s
—Using the Azure Pricing Calculator 4m 29s
—Two Approaches to Modernizing on Azure 2m 59s
—Summary 2m 23sMoving to GitHub- 23m 32s
—Overview 2m 11s
—Why GitHub? 3m 6s
—Introducing the Sample Project 2m 18s
—Getting the App Under Source Control 4m 15s
—Using .gitignore 3m 53s
—Committing the Project and Publishing to GitHub 5m 55s
—Summary 1m 52sCleaning up the Application- 34m 9sProvisioning, Configuring, and Deploying the Website- 54m 19sSetting up Slots and Staged Deployment from Source Control- 42m 16sMigrating the Database to the Azure SQL Database Service- 1h 3mMonitoring and Diagnostics- 41m 52sBeyond the Basics - Cloud to the Max!- 31m 50s