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Azure for Architects - Third Edition

By : Ritesh Modi, Jack Lee, Rithin Skaria
Book Image

Azure for Architects - Third Edition

By: Ritesh Modi, Jack Lee, Rithin Skaria

Overview of this book

Thanks to its support for high availability, scalability, security, performance, and disaster recovery, Azure has been widely adopted to create and deploy different types of application with ease. Updated for the latest developments, this third edition of Azure for Architects helps you get to grips with the core concepts of designing serverless architecture, including containers, Kubernetes deployments, and big data solutions. You'll learn how to architect solutions such as serverless functions, you'll discover deployment patterns for containers and Kubernetes, and you'll explore large-scale big data processing using Spark and Databricks. As you advance, you'll implement DevOps using Azure DevOps, work with intelligent solutions using Azure Cognitive Services, and integrate security, high availability, and scalability into each solution. Finally, you'll delve into Azure security concepts such as OAuth, OpenConnect, and managed identities. By the end of this book, you'll have gained the confidence to design intelligent Azure solutions based on containers and serverless functions.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Index

Azure Logic Apps

Logic Apps is a serverless workflow offering from Azure. It has all the features of serverless technologies, such as consumption-based costing and unlimited scalability. Logic Apps helps us to build a business process and workflow solution with ease using the Azure portal. It provides a drag-and-drop UI to create and configure workflows.

Using Logic Apps is the preferred way to integrate services and data, create business projects, and create a complete flow of logic. There are several important concepts that should be understood before building a logic app.

Activities

An activity is a single unit of work. Examples of activities include converting XML to JSON, reading blobs from Azure Storage, and writing to a Cosmos DB document collection. Logic Apps provides a workflow definition consisting of multiple co-related activities in a sequence. There are two types of activity in Logic Apps:

  • Trigger: A trigger refers to the initiation of an activity...