Learning the Basics of the Azure APIs

Explore how Azure APIs and SDKs provide a consistent interface for programming cloud resources in Go. Learn about Azure identity, Role-Based Access Control, and resource hierarchy. Gain practical knowledge by creating a free Azure account and accessing the Azure REST API using the CLI for cloud automation.

We'll cover the following...

A background on cloud APIs and SDKs
Microsoft Azure identity, RBAC, and resource hierarchy
Creating an Azure account and accessing the API

Now that we know the path to programming the cloud is through APIs, let's learn a bit more about them. It's important to establish some background on how a large system of APIs comes together to form a consistent programmatic interface. We will also learn where we can find code and documentation when we run into challenges.

In this lesson, we are going to discuss how the major clouds define APIs and produce Software Development Kits (SDKs) for programming against the cloud APIs. We will learn where to find these SDKs, and where to find documentation about the APIs and SDKs.

1.Introduction to the Course

2.Go Language Basics

3.Go Language Essentials

4.Filesystem Interactions

5.Using Common Data Formats

6.Interacting with Remote Data Sources

Project

7.Writing Command-Line Tooling

8.Automating Command-Line Tasks

9.Observability with OpenTelemetry

10.Automating Workflows with GitHub Actions

11.Using ChatOps to Increase Efficiency

12.Creating Immutable Infrastructure Using Packer

13.Infrastructure as Code with Terraform

14.Deploying and Building Applications in Kubernetes

15.Programming the Cloud

16.Designing for Chaos

17.Appendix

18.Conclusion

Learning the Basics of the Azure APIs