Technical requirements
If you want to practice the explanations provided in this chapter, you will require the following:
- An Azure subscription: To create your free Azure account, follow the steps explained at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/.
- Visual Studio 2019: You will need this to open the solution provided on GitHub.
- Dapr (Distributed Application Runtime) CLI: To install the Dapr CLI, follow the steps explained at https://github.com/dapr/cli.
- Docker: To install Docker Engine, follow the steps explained at https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/.
- Microsoft Visio: You will need this to open the diagrams, although they are also provided as PNG files.
- Fiddler or Postman: Use your preferred tool. We use Fiddler in this book, but feel free to use any other HTTP tool you want.
All of the code samples and diagrams are available at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/The-Azure-Cloud-Native-Architecture-Mapbook/tree/master/Chapter05/.
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