Major Updates for my Building Secure Services in Azure Course

I’ve completely reworked my secure services course from scratch. There’s a lot of demos across a wide range of technologies here, including:

Docker Containers

• Building ASP.NET Core projects using Visual Studio and Docker containers.

• Deploying container images using Docker Hub and Azure App Services for Linux

• Setting up continuous deployment for containers

Automation and Azure Resource Manager

• Using ARM templates to deploy and provision resources in Azure (infrastructure as code)

• Setting up Azure Key Vault

• Storing secrets in Key Vault for use in ARM templates

Microservices and Container Orchestration

• Using the new IHttpClientFactory and resiliency patterns for HTTP networking in ASP.NET Core

• Container orchestration using Docker compose

• Creating and using an Azure Container Registry (ACR)

• Deploying multiple images using ACR And Compose

Cloud Identity

• Creating your own test instance of Azure Active Directory

• Authentication with OpenID Connect (OIDC) and Azure Active Directory

• Securing APIs using Azure Active Directory and JWT tokens

• Invoking secure APIs

• Setting up an Azure B2C instance and defining your own policies

• Securing an application using Azure B2C.

Note: this updated course is an hour shorter than the original course. Pluralsight authors generally want to make courses longer, not shorter, but I learned how to tell a better story this second time around. Also, the Docker story and tooling is markedly improved from last year, which saves times.

I hope you enjoy the course!