Review of Building Your First Microsoft Azure Solution

In this chapter, we’ve applied our understanding of Microsoft Azure to practical use, through which we have delved into:

• Project overview: We’ve come to understand the purpose and architecture of our project, which leverages a variety of Microsoft Azure services such as Azure SQL, Azure Functions, and Cognitive services.
• Preparing your development environment: We’ve learned to build our project in an Educative development environment.
• Creating the Microsoft Azure Cognitive service: We’ve gained knowledge on creating the Microsoft Azure Cognitive service for integration into our image-description project.
• Building the front-facing API: We’ve learned to construct the image describer API with Azure Functions.
• Creating Microsoft Azure Storage account: We’ve learned the process of creating a Microsoft Azure Storage account for image storage.
• Updating the code to add images to Storage account: We’ve learned to modify the API code to facilitate image storage in the storage account.
• Creating the Microsoft Azure SQL database: We’ve learned the steps to create a database within Microsoft Azure.
• Updating the code to store in Microsoft Azure SQL database: We’ve learned how to amend our code to ensure data storage within the Azure SQL database.
• Creating Function app to host the API: We’ve learned how to deploy the image describer API to an Azure Function App.
• Deploying and monitoring our API: We’ve learned the procedure to deploy our API to Azure Function app and the ways to monitor it using Application Insights.