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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

How to do it...

Perform the following steps:

  1. Navigate to the build definition named AzureFunctions-CI, click on the Edit button, and then click on the Queue button available on the right-hand side, as shown in Figure 12.11:
    Clicking on the Queue button
    Figure 12.11: Azure DevOps—build pipelines—the Queue button
  2. In the Azure Pool for AzureFunctions-CI pop-up window, make sure that the vs2017-win2016 option is chosen in the Agent Specification drop-down list in Visual Studio 2017 or 2019 and click on the Queue button, as shown in Figure 12.12:
    Running a pipeline
    Figure 12.12: Azure DevOps—build pipelines—running a pipeline

    Note

    At the time of writing, the VS 2019 option is not available. While reading, if the VS 2019 option becomes available, feel free to choose that.

  3. In just a few moments, the build will be queued and the message will be displayed, as shown in Figure 12.13:
    Viewing progress of the build process
    Figure 12.13: Azure DevOps—build pipelines—viewing progress
  4. After a few moments, the build process will...