Simple app that's using Azure resources

Used resources

• SQL Database
• Service Bus
• Storage account
• Container registry
• App Services
• Container instances

Features

• Add photos with description and in real time send notifications to another users.
• Toggle emotes.
• Add comments to photo.

Local development

For local development use docker-compose where you have:

• SQL database image
• API image
• Client image

You also must have:

• Service bus with topic and subscriptions:
  • aa_example.com
  • bb_example.com
  • cc_example.com
  • dd_example.com
  • ee_example.com
  • (look for migration and Notifications.razor files)
  • (@ symbol is forbidden in subscription name)
• Azure storage account with container test (look for AzureFileService and lines 19, 33, 46) or implement missing functions and swap IFileService implementation to LocalFileService

Set variables in .env and in Shared project in DoNotGit -> DoNotCommit.cs

My deployment experience

1. Create resource group with specific location.
2. Create database.
3. Create container registry.
4. Change in container registry -> settings -> access keys -> check Administrator.
5. Push API image to registry.
6. Get connection string to database like:
   1. Server=tcp:X.database.windows.net,1433;Initial Catalog=Y;Persist Security Info=False;User ID=W;Password=Z;MultipleActiveResultSets=False;Encrypt=True;TrustServerCertificate=False;Connection Timeout=30;
7. Run migration to remote database.
8. Create web app from App Services from API container.
9. Set:
   1. DB_CONNECTION_STRING
   2. STORAGE_KEY
   3. TOPIC_KEY
   4. TOPIC_NAME
10. In Shared project -> DoNotGit -> DontCommit.cs change API_URL to existing API web app.
11. Build docker-compose.
12. Tag and push to container registry Client container.
13. Create instance of Client container from registry with port 80 (by default is added to configuration).
14. Add FRONTED_URL environmental variable to API web app like:
    1. http://X.Y.W.Z
15. Restart API web app manually and wait for all to startup up.

Places to improve

Places that could have been better designed, but unfortunately were implemented in a non-professional way due to lack of time and experience:

• Better login system (in this state user is stored in LocalStorage of browser).
• Better understanding of CORS, so I don't have to fight and use FRONTEND_URL as environmental variable.
• Pass environmental variables to Client project (I was fighting with nginx, but maybe I don't need to use it?).