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Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Praveen Kumar Sreeram
Book Image

Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Praveen Kumar Sreeram

Overview of this book

This third edition of Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook guides you through the development of a basic back-end web API that performs simple operations, helping you understand how to persist data in Azure Storage services. You'll cover the integration of Azure Functions with other cloud services, such as notifications (SendGrid and Twilio), Cognitive Services (computer vision), and Logic Apps, to build simple workflow-based applications. With the help of this book, you'll be able to leverage Visual Studio tools to develop, build, test, and deploy Azure functions quickly. It also covers a variety of tools and methods for testing the functionality of Azure functions locally in the developer's workstation and in the cloud environment. Once you're familiar with the core features, you'll explore advanced concepts such as durable functions, starting with a "hello world" example, and learn about the scalable bulk upload use case, which uses durable function patterns, function chaining, and fan-out/fan-in. By the end of this Azure book, you'll have gained the knowledge and practical experience needed to be able to create and deploy Azure applications on serverless architectures efficiently.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Index

Deploying Azure functions using the Run From Package feature

We have been learning about different techniques for developing Azure functions and deploying them to the cloud.

As you may already know, each function app can have multiple functions hosted within it. All the code related to these functions is located in the D:\home\site\wwwroot folder. We'll use the Kudu app to view the binaries.

Kudu is an open-source application that lets us deploy binaries to an App Service, view the environment variables, and view processes running on the App Service's hosts. Navigate to Kudu with the URL https://<<yourfunctionappname>>.scm.azurewebsites.net.

In Figure 11.1, you can see all the binaries of the Kudu web app:

KUDU app – WWW root folder structure
Figure 11.1: KUDU app—WWW root folder structure

D:\home\site\wwwroot is the location where the runtime would look for the binaries and all the configuration files that are required to execute the application.

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