Azure Training Overview
This Azure Integration Services training course teaches attendees how to build cloud-hosted integration solutions using Microsoft Azure. Attendees learn how to create enterprise-grade integration solutions using Logic Apps, the Azure App Service, the Enterprise Integration Pack, the Azure Service Bus, and custom API Apps. This Azure course includes a full-day workshop where attendees build a complete end-to-end integration.
Location and Pricing
This course is taught as a private, live online class for teams of 3 or more. All our courses are hands-on, instructor-led, and tailored to fit your group’s goals and needs. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for online corporate training, please contact us.
In addition, some courses are available as live, instructor-led training from one of our partners.
Objectives
- Manage the Application Lifecycle using Azure Resource Groups
- Create Azure resources using the Azure Resource Manager and Azure Portal
- Connect to on-premises systems using the on-premises data gateway
- Create schemas for Azure API Apps
- Build maps for the BizTalk Transform Service API App
- Manage Enterprise Integration Pack assets using an Integration Account
- Interact with Azure Service Bus topics, subscriptions, and queues manually and programmatically
- Build complex workflows using Logic Apps to perform forking, merging, loops, parallel execution, and exception handling
- Build custom API Apps including triggers and actions
Prerequisites
Attendees must be proficient with C# and have familiarity with ASP.NET, .NET MVC or Core, and Web API.
Outline
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Introduction to Logic Apps and Cloud-Based Integration
- Microsoft Integration Platform Vision
- Logic App Technology Primer
- Building a Simple Logic App
Setting Up an Azure App Service Development Environment
- Components of Hybrid Integrations
- Setting Up a Development Environment
Introduction to Logic Apps
- Logic App Fundamentals
- Anatomy of a Logic App
- Intro to Logic Apps Expressions
- Manual Testing and Troubleshooting
Using Azure Resource Groups as an Application Lifecycle Container
- Resource Groups Fundamentals
- Working with Resource Groups
- Managing Resource Deployments Using Team Foundation Server
Advanced Logic Apps
- Conditional Execution
- Calling External Logic
- Exception Handling
- Looping Through Data
- Tracking
Building Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) Apps Using Azure App Service
- EAI Concepts
- Implement VETERO Using Logic Apps
- Enabling Hybrid Integrations
- Introducing the Enterprise Integration Pack
Creating Schemas
- Introduction to Schemas
- Creating XML Schemas
- Schemas for Non-XML Messages
- Introduction to Logic Apps and Cloud-Based Integration
- Microsoft Integration Platform Vision
- Logic App Technology Primer
- Building a Simple Logic Apps
Mapping Data Using Transforms
- Introduction to Maps
- Manipulating Data Using Functoids
- Getting the Most out of the Mapper
Introduction to Microsoft Azure Service Bus
- What Is Service Bus?
- Working with Queues
- How Service Bus Handles Failures
Implementing a Publish/Subscribe Model Using Service Bus
- Theory of Topics and Subscriptions
- Interacting with Topics and Subscriptions Programmatically
Architecting Cloud Integration Solutions
- Reviewing Core Technologies
- Full-Day Workshop
- Building EAI Apps Using Azure App Service
- Advanced Apps with Azure App Service
- Building Request/Response Logic Apps
Building Custom API Apps
- Anatomy of an API App
- Fundamentals of Web API
- Hello API App World
- Debugging API Apps
- Creating Deployment Templates for Custom APIs
Building Custom Triggers
- Concepts of Triggers
- Creating Polling Triggers
Conclusion
Training Materials
All Azure training attendees receive comprehensive courseware.
Software Requirements
We host the labs on our private cloud so there are no labs or images to install on the students/your hardware.
- Hardware: 2 GB RAM, 2 GHz CPU or greater, and 2 GB free disk space
- Software: Internet Explorer 6.0 or better, Firefox 2.0 or better (JavaScript and Java enabled), Safari 3.0 or better, Windows XP or better (including Server versions), and OS X 10.5 or better.
- Connectivity: Internet access, 1 Mbps Downstream / 512 Kbps Upstream minimum
- If you have firewall problems, please talk to your IT Department as soon as possible and reference the following connectivity guide: http://www.gotoassist.com/iprange and email: email [email protected].
We also highly recommend that each student have two monitors.
Each student will need to set up a Microsoft Azure account and a Twilio account – both free. We provide instructions on how to do this a few days before the start of class.
