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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

Continuous integration—creating a build definition

In this recipe, we will learn how to configure continuous integration by creating a build definition. A build definition is a set of tasks that are required to configure an automated build of software. In this recipe, we will perform the following:

  1. Create the build definition template.
  2. Provide all the inputs required for each of the steps to create the build definition.

Getting ready

Perform the following prerequisites:

  1. Create an Azure DevOps account.
  2. Create a project by choosing Git, as shown in Figure 12.2:
    Creating a private Azure DevOps project with Git version control
Figure 12.2: Creating a private Azure DevOps project with Git version control

How to do it…

In order to create the build definition, we'll have to perform the following steps:

  1. Navigate to the Pipelines tab in the Azure DevOps account, click on Pipelines, and choose Create Pipeline to start the process of creating a new build definition, as shown in Figure...