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Robust Cloud integration with Azure

By : Gyanendra Kumar Gautam , Martin Abbott, Corbould, Mahindra Morar, Abhishek Kumar, Bhambhani

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Robust Cloud integration with Azure

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By: Gyanendra Kumar Gautam , Martin Abbott, Corbould, Mahindra Morar, Abhishek Kumar, Bhambhani

Overview of this book

Any software developers, architects, and technical managers lookng to learn about Azure IaaS essentials need look no further. This book is ideal for Microsoft Enterprise developers, DevOps or any IT professionals looking to connect cloud-based and on-premises systems with Azure.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. An Introduction to Systems Integration in the Cloud

1. An Introduction to Systems Integration in the Cloud

What is Azure?

What is cloud computing?

Types of microservices

Summary

2. What Is an Azure App Service?

2. What Is an Azure App Service?

What is an Azure App Service?

App Service plans

An overview of our sample solution

Summary

3. Getting Started with API Apps

3. Getting Started with API Apps

Why use API Apps?

Building, hosting, and consuming your first API App

Security

What is App Service authentication and authorization?

Summary

4. What is Azure API Management?

4. What is Azure API Management?

The anatomy of Azure API Management

Working with Azure API Management

Policies in Azure API Management

Securing your API in Azure API Management

Monitoring your API

Summary

5. Trigger Your First Logic App in Azure

5. Trigger Your First Logic App in Azure

An introduction to Logic App

The comparison between BizTalk server and Logic Apps

Why and when to use

Diagnosing Logic Apps

Building your first Logic App

Logic Apps using Visual Studio

Summary

6. Working with Connectors in Logic Apps

6. Working with Connectors in Logic Apps

Categorizing Microsoft connectors

Types of triggers

Connector as an action

Building your first connector

Make your connector work for Logic Apps

Adding summary and XML Documentation

Discovering partion keys in the storage table

Summary

7. Azure Functions in Logic Apps

7. Azure Functions in Logic Apps

The basics of Azure Functions

Building Azure Functions

Using functions with Logic Apps

Other considerations

Summary

8. A Deep Dive into Logic Apps

8. A Deep Dive into Logic Apps

Workflow definition language

Parameters

Output

Content type in Logic Apps

Flow controls, SplitOn, and scope in Logic Apps

Exception handling in Logic Apps

Summary

9. Powerful Integration with SaaS Using Logic Apps

9. Powerful Integration with SaaS Using Logic Apps

Exploring the Logic App SaaS connectors

Hooking up to SaaS solutions using the SaaS connectors

Summary

10. Advanced Integration with Powerful, Scalable Service Bus in the Cloud

10. Advanced Integration with Powerful, Scalable Service Bus in the Cloud

Service Bus types

Service Bus tiers

Service Bus Queue characteristics

Retrieving messages off a queue

Deferring message processing

Security

Managing Service Bus outages and disasters

Service Bus topics

Subscriptions

Partitioned queues/topics

Administration tools

Summary

11. Connecting to Event Hubs and an Introduction to IoT Hubs

11. Connecting to Event Hubs and an Introduction to IoT Hubs

An introduction to Event Hubs

Introduction to Azure IoT Hubs

Scenario - bringing it all together

Summary

12. EAI/B2B Integration Using Logic Apps

12. EAI/B2B Integration Using Logic Apps

Enterprise Integration Pack for Logic Apps

Enterprise messaging in Logic Apps

Enterprise Integration Pack connectors

Add partners in your workflow

Store custom metadata information in Integration Accounts artifacts

Summary

13. Hybrid Integration Using BizTalk Server 2016 and Logic Apps

13. Hybrid Integration Using BizTalk Server 2016 and Logic Apps

Hybrid Integration

Why Hybrid Integration?

Message exchange pattern

What is a BizTalk Server?

Connecting on-premise BizTalk Server 2016 with Azure Logic App

Connecting Azure Logic App with on-premise BizTalk Server 2016

Summary

14. Tooling and Monitoring for Logic Apps

14. Tooling and Monitoring for Logic Apps

Tools to monitor Azure resources

Azure Resource Management templates

Creating ARM Template using Visual Studio

Manual deployments of App Services

Continuous deployment

Monitoring

Logic App monitoring

Logic App message logging with Azure Functions Application Insights

Summary

15. Whats Next for Azure Integration?

15. Whats Next for Azure Integration?

An integration roadmap for the future

What and when of Microsoft Azure integration

Business productivity transformation

Final thoughts

Building your first connector

As discussed in the beginning of this chapter, a connector is basically an API app that focuses on connectivity and gets data in and out of Logic Apps. In this section, we will try to build an Azure Storage Table connector. At the time of writing this chapter, Azure Storage Table connector was not available in the marketplace.

Azure Storage Table connector

We are building this connector to pull author or chapter details for this book from a Book Entity in the storage table.

First of all, we will create the API App project for storage table connector. Please follow the steps described to create an API App in Chapter 3, Getting Started with API Apps.

API App project will have a BookEntity model and a controller BookController as shown here:

BookController will have an operation GetBookEntity. This operation primarily takes the PartitionKey and the RowKey to fetch the record from the storage table. If you see the model, the author or the chapter is the partition...

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