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Module Overview & Professional Context

Cloud computing and DevOps practices have transformed enterprise software delivery from quarterly or annual release cycles to continuous deployment pipelines that push changes multiple times per day with high confidence and low risk. .NET Core is exceptionally well-suited for cloud-native application development — its lightweight runtime, fast startup time, excellent container support, and deep integration with Microsoft Azure (the second-largest cloud platform globally) make it the platform of choice for organizations building modern cloud applications. Understanding cloud integration and DevOps for .NET Core is a critical skill for professional developers working in enterprise environments. Microsoft Azure is the primary cloud platform for .NET Core applications, though .NET runs equally well on AWS and Google Cloud. Azure App Service is the fully managed platform for hosting ASP.NET Core web applications and APIs — it handles server provisioning, operating system patches, SSL certificates, load balancing, and auto-scaling. Azure Functions enables serverless computing, where individual functions are triggered by HTTP requests, timer schedules, queue messages, or blob storage events — with billing only for actual execution time. Azure Container Apps and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) provide managed container orchestration for microservices architectures. Azure SQL Database and Azure Cosmos DB provide managed relational and NoSQL database services with automatic backups, geo-replication, and elastic scaling. CI/CD (Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment) pipelines automate the process of building, testing, and deploying applications whenever code is merged. GitHub Actions has become the most popular CI/CD platform for .NET projects, with first-class support including the actions/setup-dotnet action for configuring the .NET SDK version. A typical .NET pipeline: checks out code, restores NuGet packages, builds the solution, runs unit and integration tests, publishes the application, builds a Docker image, pushes it to a container registry like Azure Container Registry or Docker Hub, and deploys to the target environment. Azure DevOps Pipelines offers an alternative CI/CD solution with tight Azure integration, branching strategy controls, approval gates, and deployment environments. Observability — the ability to understand what is happening inside your running application — is essential for operating production systems reliably. ASP.NET Core supports structured logging via the Microsoft.Extensions.Logging ILogger<T> interface, with provider implementations for console output, Azure Application Insights, Serilog, and other sinks. Azure Application Insights provides an Application Performance Monitoring (APM) service that auto-instruments ASP.NET Core applications to collect request traces, dependency calls, exceptions, custom metrics, and user analytics. The OpenTelemetry standard enables vendor-neutral tracing and metrics that export to any compatible backend including Jaeger, Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog. Distributed tracing propagates a correlation ID across microservice calls, enabling developers to reconstruct the complete execution path of any request across dozens of services.

Skills & Outcomes in This Module

Deep conceptual understanding with the 'why' behind each feature

Practical code patterns used in real enterprise codebases

Common pitfalls, debugging strategies, and professional best practices

Integration with adjacent technologies and architectural patterns

Interview preparation: key questions on this topic with detailed answers

Industry context: where and how these skills are applied professionally

Try It Yourself — Cloud Integration & DevOps

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  .container { background: white; padding: 30px; border-radius: 12px; box-shadow: 0 2px 8px rgba(0,0,0,0.1); max-width: 600px; margin: auto; }
  h1 { color: #4A90D9; }
  button { background: #4A90D9; color: white; border: none; padding: 10px 20px; border-radius: 6px; font-weight: bold; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; margin: 5px; }
  button:hover { background: #357ABD; }
  .output { background: #f0f0f0; padding: 15px; border-radius: 8px; margin-top: 15px; font-family: monospace; min-height: 40px; white-space: pre-wrap; }
  input { padding: 8px 12px; border: 2px solid #ddd; border-radius: 6px; font-size: 14px; margin: 5px; }
</style></head><body>
<div class="container">
  <h1>🔧 .NET Core Module 7 Playground</h1>
  <p>Interactive demo for this module's concepts!</p>
  <input id="inp" placeholder="Type something..." />
  <button onclick="runDemo()">Run Demo</button>
  <button onclick="clearOut()">Clear</button>
  <div class="output" id="output">Click "Run Demo" to start...</div>
</div>
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  function addLog(m) { log.push(m); document.getElementById('output').textContent = log.join('
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  function clearOut() { log=[]; document.getElementById('output').textContent='Cleared.'; }
  function runDemo() {
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    addLog('Processing: ' + v);
    addLog('Result: ' + v.split('').reverse().join(''));
    addLog('Length: ' + v.length);
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Azure Integration & Services

Module Overview & Professional Context

Skills & Outcomes in This Module

Azure Services for .NET Core

Try It Yourself — Cloud Integration & DevOps

Quick Quiz — Cloud Integration & DevOps