In order to get the most out of this workshop, you should be familiar with .NET and the C# programming language. Though no previous experience with microservices is assumed, you should be familiar with building and deploying server-based applications.
In this series of labs, you will implement Dapr and some of its building blocks on DaprHospital: a fictitious hospital system that includes the following microservices:
- Person
- Patient
- PatientQuery
- Hospital
The following diagram shows the entire DaprHospital solution:
DaprHospital includes four microservices: Person, Patient, PatientQuery, and Hospital.
The Person microservice is meant to manage the basic information about people.
The Patient microservice manages the clinical information about patients. There is a 1:1 relationship between people and patients.
The PatientQuery is used to obtain and merge data from both the Person and Patient microservices.
The Hospital microservice manages the Inpatient information, such as procedures applied.
Dapr includes a number of building blocks to easily create distributed applications and to help abstract away the complexities of these kinds of architectures. In DaprHospital, you will implement the following building blocks:
- Pub/Sub
- Service-to-service invocation
- State management
- Input and Output bindings
In addition, you will deploy DaprHospital in an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster.
- Windows 10 2004 or above
- Visual Studio 2022 17.0 or above
- Visual Studio Code 1.66 or above
- .NET 6.0 SDK
- Docker Desktop for Windows 20.10.11 or above
- Local SQL Server engine (SQL Server or SQL Server Express)
- SQL Server Management Studio or Azure Data Studio
- Windows Terminal or PowerShell
- Git 2.33 or above
- Postman
- Azure CLI 2.28 or above
- Helm 3.6.3 or above
- An Azure account (You can get a free trial on azure.com/free)
- A Docker Hub account (https://hub.docker.com)