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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

Creating a connected architecture with functions

A connected architecture with functions refers to creating multiple functions, whereby the output of one function triggers another function and provides data for the next function to execute its logic. In this section, we will continue with the previous scenario of the Storage account. In this case, the output of the function being triggered using Azure Storage Blob files will write the size of the file to Azure Cosmos DB.

The configuration of Cosmos DB is shown next. By default, there are no collections created in Cosmos DB.

A collection will automatically be created when creating a function that will be triggered when Cosmos DB gets any data:

Creating an Azure Cosmos DB account
Figure 10.19: Creating an Azure Cosmos DB account

Let's follow the below steps to retrieve data for the next function from the output of one function.

  1. Create a new database, testdb, within Cosmos DB, and create...