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DevOps for Serverless Applications

By : Shashikant Bangera
Book Image

DevOps for Serverless Applications

By: Shashikant Bangera

Overview of this book

Serverless applications are becoming very popular among developers and are generating a buzz in the tech market. Many organizations struggle with the effective implementation of DevOps with serverless applications. DevOps for Serverless Applications takes you through different DevOps-related scenarios to give you a solid foundation in serverless deployment. You will start by understanding the concepts of serverless architecture and development, and why they are important. Then, you will get to grips with the DevOps ideology and gain an understanding of how it fits into the Serverless Framework. You'll cover deployment framework building and deployment with CI and CD pipelines for serverless applications. You will also explore log management and issue reporting in the serverless environment. In the concluding chapters, you will learn important security tips and best practices for secure pipeline management. By the end of this book, you will be in a position to effectively build a complete CI and CD delivery pipeline with log management for serverless applications.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
5
Integrating DevOps with IBM OpenWhisk
Index

Chapter 4. DevOps with Azure Functions

Microsoft Azure is the number two cloud service provider, just behind AWS. But, until 2015, they hadn't provided API services, but they were excelling in other cloud services like AWS and Google Cloud Functions. Then, eventually, they decided to invest in functions. So, Azure Functions is the answer to AWS Lambda, but the underlying technology is different, which we will cover in upcoming chapters. Azure Functions sit on top of the Azure app service and WebJobs SDK. Azure Functions support a lot of languages like F#, Python, Batch, PHP, and PowerShell, but C# and Node.js are officially supported. We will be using Node.js for all our tutorials throughout this chapter and more details on the Azure Functions can be found on Microsoft link: https:/ / msdn. microsoft. com/ en- us/ magazine/ mt793269. aspx.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Building a simple Azure function
  • Continuous integration and continuous delivery with Azure Functions...