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Azure .NET Roadmap

🔹 DevOps with Azure (for .NET Applications) – Roadmap

1. Fundamentals of Azure

Before doing DevOps, get clear on Azure basics:

  • Azure subscription, tenants, and RBAC (access control)

  • Resource Groups & ARM (Azure Resource Manager)

  • Azure Networking basics (VNet, Subnets, NSG, Private/Public endpoints)

  • Azure Storage (Blob, Queue, Table, File shares)

  • Azure Compute (App Service, Function Apps, AKS, VMs)

  • Azure SQL Database & Cosmos DB basics

👉 Practice: Deploy a sample .NET Core web app to Azure App Service.

2. Source Control & Project Setup

  • Git fundamentals (branching, merging, tagging)

  • Azure Repos / GitHub integration

  • Organize .NET projects (solution, projects, class libraries)

👉 Practice: Host your .NET Web API in GitHub/Azure Repos.

3. CI/CD with Azure DevOps

  • Azure DevOps Pipelines (YAML pipelines)

  • Build pipelines for .NET:

    • Restore NuGet packages

    • Run unit tests (xUnit/NUnit/MSTest)

    • Build & publish artifacts

  • Release pipelines:

    • Deploy to Azure App Service

    • Deploy to Azure Functions

    • Deploy database migrations (EF Core migrations)

👉 Practice: Create a pipeline that builds & deploys a .NET API to Azure App Service automatically.

4. Containerization

  • Docker basics (images, containers, Dockerfile, volumes, networking)

  • Write Dockerfile for a .NET app

  • Push images to Azure Container Registry (ACR)

  • Deploy to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

👉 Practice: Run your .NET app in AKS using ACR images.

5. Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

  • ARM templates basics

  • Terraform (preferred in real-world)

  • Provision resources for .NET app:

    • App Service

    • SQL Database

    • Storage

    • Key Vault

👉 Practice: Use Terraform to deploy an Azure App Service + DB for your .NET API.

6. Monitoring & Logging

  • Azure Application Insights (for .NET logging & tracing)

  • Azure Monitor (metrics, dashboards, alerts)

  • Log Analytics

👉 Practice: Enable Application Insights for your .NET app and track performance.

7. Security & Identity

  • Azure Key Vault for secrets

  • Managed Identities

  • Role-based access control (RBAC)

  • Azure AD integration with .NET (authentication)

👉 Practice: Store DB connection string in Key Vault and use it in your .NET app via Managed Identity.

8. Advanced DevOps Practices

  • Multi-stage YAML pipelines

  • Blue-Green & Canary deployments

  • Feature Flags with Azure App Config

  • GitOps with Flux/ArgoCD (for AKS)

  • Scaling apps with Azure Load Balancer / Front Door

👉 Practice: Configure blue-green deployment for your .NET app in Azure.

✅ End Goal:
You should be able to take a .NET app from code → GitHub → Azure Pipeline → Docker → AKS → Monitor → Secure with Key Vault.
That’s the full DevOps cycle with Azure, specifically for .NET.