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Implementing Azure: Putting Modern DevOps to Use

By : Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Markus Klein, Mohamed Waly, Namit Tanasseri, Rahul Rai
Book Image

Implementing Azure: Putting Modern DevOps to Use

By: Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Markus Klein, Mohamed Waly, Namit Tanasseri, Rahul Rai

Overview of this book

This Learning Path helps you understand microservices architecture and leverage various services of Microsoft Azure Service Fabric to build, deploy, and maintain highly scalable enterprise-grade applications. You will learn to select an appropriate Azure backend structure for your solutions and work with its toolkit and managed apps to share your solutions with its service catalog. As you progress through the Learning Path, you will study Azure Cloud Services, Azure-managed Kubernetes, and Azure Container Services deployment techniques. To apply all that you’ve understood, you will build an end-to-end Azure system in scalable, decoupled tiers for an industrial bakery with three business domains. Toward the end of this Learning Path, you will build another scalable architecture using Azure Service Bus topics to send orders between decoupled business domains with scalable worker roles processing these orders. By the end of this Learning Path, you will be comfortable in using development, deployment, and maintenance processes to build robust cloud solutions on Azure. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Learn Microsoft Azure by Mohamed Wali • Implementing Azure Solutions - Second Edition by Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Markus Klein • Microservices with Azure by Namit Tanasseri and Rahul Rai
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Webhook and API function apps


The webhook and API functions get triggered by events in external services such as GitHub, TFS, Office 365, OneDrive, and Microsoft PowerApps.

With the webhook and API functions, you can build notification Nanoservices that can perform custom operations whenever they receive a message on a configured webhook. For example, you can use webhooks with OneDrive that notifies your Nanoservice whenever a file gets uploaded to a folder.

Webhook and API functions accept a request and return a response. They mimic the web API or web service flows. These functions generally require some CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) settings to be managed. While developing the Nanoservices you can use an asterisk wildcard so they are wide open. However, you need to be aware that to invoke these Nanoservices from other services, you would need to set the cross-origin information in your function app settings.

These types of functions are generally used for exposing functionality to...