Chapter 1: Getting Started with Azure Logic Apps
This chapter introduces us to a new way of working – the no-code revolution. Microsoft Azure makes this possible by taking the concept of a flowchart and applying it to the access, formatting, calculating, and use of data within systems. As a result, for the end user, Flow, now called Power Automate, was born, allowing interaction, alerting, and collaboration. For developers, logic apps was created, allowing large amounts of records in bulk form to be updated immediately upon a change, or saved in the frontend system. Immediate alterations and process logic are now possible without the need to write custom apps. These may be complex to write but can address problems within a matter of minutes, not days.
In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:
- Introducing the new world
- We know the why, now for the how
- At your service
- It all leads to logic
- Introducing Azure
- Getting started with Azure Logic Apps
- Obtaining an MSDN account
- The Azure portal