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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

Creating and testing Azure functions locally using Azure CLI tools

Most of the recipes so far have been created using either the browser or the Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE).

Azure also provides tools for developers who prefer to work with the command line. These tools allow us to create Azure resources with simple commands right from the command line. In this recipe, we'll learn how to create a new function app, and we'll also understand how to create a function and deploy it to Azure directly from the command line.

Getting ready

Before proceeding further with the recipe, install Node.js and the Azure CLI. The download links for these tools are as follows:

How to do it...

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