13 article(s)

• Azure for .NET Developers — Part 8: What a Hobby-Scale .NET App Really Costs

  Honest, itemized numbers for a small production ASP.NET Core app on Azure, the cost traps that bite beginners, and when a plain $12 VPS is simply the better call.

  @llaxmikant · Aug 27, 2026
• Azure for .NET Developers — Part 7: Create and Automate VMs with the Azure SDK

  The modern Azure.ResourceManager SDK end to end: resource group, network, and a Linux VM with SSH keys from C#, plus scheduled start/stop to keep the bill sane.

  @llaxmikant · Aug 23, 2026
• Azure for .NET Developers — Part 6: Azure Functions vs Background Services — When Serverless Wins

  The isolated worker model, honest cold-start numbers, and a practical decision table for Functions vs IHostedService vs container jobs.

  @llaxmikant · Aug 20, 2026
• Azure for .NET Developers — Part 5: Blob Storage, Queues, and SAS Tokens That Expire Properly

  BlobServiceClient with DefaultAzureCredential, access tiers and lifecycle rules, and user-delegation SAS links that expire in minutes instead of account keys that never do.

  @llaxmikant · Aug 18, 2026
• Azure for .NET Developers — Part 4: Managed Identity — Kill Every Connection String and API Key

  System vs user-assigned identities, RBAC role grants, and the DefaultAzureCredential chain that makes the same C# work on your laptop and in production.

  @llaxmikant · Aug 13, 2026
• Azure for .NET Developers — Part 3: Azure SQL, EF Core, and the Firewall Gotchas

  Provision serverless Azure SQL with auto-pause, wire up EF Core with retry-on-failure, survive the firewall rules, and go password-less with Entra authentication.

  @llaxmikant · Aug 11, 2026
• Azure for .NET Developers — Part 2: Deploy an ASP.NET Core App to App Service the Right Way

  az webapp up, GitHub Actions, Key Vault configuration references, deployment slots for zero-downtime swaps, and the gotchas that break first deployments.

  @llaxmikant · Aug 10, 2026
• Azure for .NET Developers — Part 1: Subscriptions, Tenants, and Entra ID Explained

  The Azure mental model for C# developers: tenant vs subscription vs resource group, what app registrations really are, and how DefaultAzureCredential kills hardcoded secrets.

  @llaxmikant · Aug 7, 2026
• Modern .NET Backend Roadmap — Part 7: Azure Deployment

  Ship the container to Azure: choosing between App Service, Container Apps and AKS, pushing to a registry, secrets and managed identity, and capturing it all as Bicep.

  @llaxmikant · Jul 3, 2026
• Create an Azure VM using C# and Azure.ResourceManager

  Provision a complete Azure Linux VM from C# with the modern Azure.ResourceManager SDK — DefaultAzureCredential auth, VNet, public IP, NIC, SSH-key login, and a migration map from the deprecated Fluent

  @llaxmikant · May 15, 2026
• Azure Resource Manager Templates Overview — with Bicep

  How Azure Resource Manager works and why templates beat scripts — with Bicep as the modern authoring language: parameters, resources, outputs, what-if previews, and deployment commands.

  @llaxmikant · Apr 11, 2026
• Create and Connect an Azure Linux VM with an SSH Key Pair

  Create an SSH key pair with ssh-keygen, provision an Azure Ubuntu VM that accepts only that key using the Azure CLI, connect, and harden access — with cleanup commands.

  @llaxmikant · Mar 27, 2026
• Get Azure Subscription, Tenant, Client ID and Client Secret

  Find your Azure subscription ID and Microsoft Entra tenant ID, register an app for a client ID and secret, assign RBAC roles, and wire all four into DefaultAzureCredential.

  @llaxmikant · Mar 9, 2026