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Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Praveen Kumar Sreeram, Jason Marston
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Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Praveen Kumar Sreeram, Jason Marston

Overview of this book

Microsoft provides a solution for easily running small segments of code in the cloud with Azure Functions. The second edition of Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook starts with intermediate-level recipes on serverless computing along with some use cases demonstrating the benefits and key features of Azure Functions. You’ll explore the core aspects of Azure Functions, such as the services it provides, how you can develop and write Azure Functions, and how to monitor and troubleshoot them. As you make your way through the chapters, you’ll get practical recipes on integrating DevOps with Azure Functions, and providing continuous integration and continuous deployment with Azure DevOps. This book also provides hands-on, step-by-step tutorials based on real-world serverless use cases to guide you through configuring and setting up your serverless environments with ease. You will also learn how to build solutions for complex, real-world, workflow-based scenarios quickly and with minimal code using Durable Functions. In the concluding chapters, you will ensure enterprise-level security within your serverless environment. The most common tips and tricks that you need to be aware of when working with Azure Functions on production environments will also be covered in this book. By the end of this book, you will have all the skills required for working with serverless code architecture, providing continuous delivery to your users.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Deploying Azure Functions in a container

By now, you might have understood the major use case of why we might use Azure Functions. Yes—it's for when developing a piece of code and deploying it in a serverless environment, where a developer or administrator doesn't need to worry about the provisioning and scaling of instances for hosting your server-side applications.

Making all of the features of serverless could only be achieved when you create your Function App by choosing the Consumption plan in the Hosting Plan drop-down menu.

By looking at the title of this recipe, you might already be wondering why and how deploying an Azure Function to a Docker container would help. Yes, the combination of Azure Functions and Docker Container might not make sense, as you would lose all of the serverless benefits of Azure Functions when you deploy to Docker. However, there...