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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

Triggering a release automatically

In this recipe, you will learn how to configure continuous deployment for an environment. In your project, you can configure development, staging, or any other pre-production environment and configure continuous deployment to streamline the deployment process.

In general, it is not recommended to configure continuous deployment for a production environment. However, this might depend on various factors and requirements. Be cautious and think about various scenarios before configuring continuous deployment for a production environment.

Getting ready

Download and install the Postman tool if it's not installed yet.

How to do it…

To configure continuous deployment, we'll perform the following steps:

  1. By default, the releases are configured to be pushed manually. Let's configure continuous deployment by navigating back to the Pipeline tab and clicking on the Continuous deployment trigger button, as shown in Figure...