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Azure for Architects. - Second Edition

By : Ritesh Modi
Book Image

Azure for Architects. - Second Edition

By: Ritesh Modi

Overview of this book

Over the years, Azure cloud services have grown quickly, and the number of organizations adopting Azure for their cloud services is also gradually increasing. Leading industry giants are finding that Azure fulfills their extensive cloud requirements. Azure for Architects – Second Edition starts with an extensive introduction to major designing and architectural aspects available with Azure. These design patterns focus on different aspects of the cloud, such as high availability, security, and scalability. Gradually, we move on to other aspects, such as ARM template modular design and deployments. This is the age of microservices and serverless is the preferred implementation mechanism for them. This book covers the entire serverless stack available in Azure including Azure Event Grid, Azure Functions, and Azure Logic Apps. New and advance features like durable functions are discussed at length. A complete integration solution using these serverless technologies is also part of the book. A complete chapter discusses all possible options related to containers in Azure including Azure Kubernetes services, Azure Container Instances and Registry, and Web App for Containers. Data management and integration is an integral part of this book that discusses options for implementing OLTP solutions using Azure SQL, Big Data solutions using Azure Data factory and Data Lake Storage, eventing solutions using stream analytics, and Event Hubs. This book will provide insights into Azure governance features such as tagging, RBAC, cost management, and policies. By the end of this book, you will be able to develop a full-?edged Azure cloud solution that is Enterprise class and future-ready.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Creating an event-driven Function

In this example, an Azure Functions will be authored and connected to the Azure Storage account. The Storage account has a container for holding all blob files. The name of the storage account is incomingfiles and the container is orders, as shown in the following screenshot:

Create a new Azure Functions from the Azure portal.

Right now, this Azure Functions does not have connectivity to the Storage account. Azure Functions need connection information for the Storage account, and that is available from the Access keys tab in the Storage account. The same information can be obtained using the Azure Functions editor environment. In fact, that environment allows for the creation of a new Storage account from the same editor environment.

This can be added using the new button beside the Storage account connection input type. It allows for the selection...