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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

Deploying the Azure Function application using Visual Studio

So far, your function application is just a regular application within Visual Studio. To deploy the function application along with its functions, you need to either create the following new resources, or select existing ones to host the new function application:

  • The resource groups
  • The App Service plan
  • The Azure Function application

You can provide all these details directly from Visual Studio without opening the Azure Management portal. You'll learn how to do that in this recipe.

How to do it…

In this section, you'll learn how to deploy Azure Functions to Azure.

Perform the following steps:

  1. Right-click on the project and then click on the Publish button to open the Pick a publish target dialog box.
  2. In the Pick a publish target dialog box, choose the Create New option and click on the Create Profile button, as shown in Figure 4.20:
    Publishing and deploying the Azure function app using Visual Studio
    Figure 4.20: Visual Studio—...