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Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook

By : Praveen Kumar Sreeram
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Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook

By: Praveen Kumar Sreeram

Overview of this book

Microsoft provides a solution to easily run small segment of code in the Cloud with Azure Functions. Azure Functions provides solutions for processing data, integrating systems, and building simple APIs and microservices. The book starts with intermediate-level recipes on serverless computing along with some use cases on benefits and key features of Azure Functions. Then, we’ll deep dive into the core aspects of Azure Functions such as the services it provides, how you can develop and write Azure functions, and how to monitor and troubleshoot them. Moving on, you’ll get practical recipes on integrating DevOps with Azure functions, and providing continuous integration and continous deployment with Visual Studio Team Services. It also provides hands-on steps and tutorials based on real-world serverless use cases, to guide you through configuring and setting up your serverless environments with ease. Finally, you’ll see how to manage Azure functions, providing enterprise-level security and compliance to your serverless code architecture. By the end of this book, you will have all the skills required to work with serverless code architecture, providing continuous delivery to your users.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Migrating legacy C# application classes to Azure Functions using PowerShell

Currently, many business applications are being hosted in private clouds or on-premise data centers. Many of them have started migrating their applications to Azure using various methods. The following are a just a few methods of quick migration to Azure:

  • Lift and shift the legacy application to the Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) environment: This method should be straight forward, as you have complete control over the virtual machines that you would create. You could host all your web applications, schedulers, databases, and so on without making any changes to your application code. You can even install any third-party software's or libraries. Though this option provides full control for your application, it would be expensive in most of the cases as the background application might not be running...