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Modern App Deployment with Azure Kubernetes
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Modern App Deployment with Azure Kubernetes

by Dawid Borycki
July 2025
Intermediate to advanced
273 pages
6h 37m
English
Microsoft Press
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Chapter 8

Azure SQL Database and Azure Key Vault

In the previous chapter, you learned how to deploy applications to Azure Kubernetes Service. The application you used stored data in an in-memory database, meaning any data added would be lost upon restarting the application. To address this, this chapter will show you how to use a persistent SQL database provisioned using the Azure SQL Database service.

To connect the application to this database, you need a connection string. Similar to how you handled settings in Docker Compose, you will pass this connection string to the application using environment variables. This method allows you to update application settings without needing to rebuild the container image.

This approach has a downside, ...

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