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Enterprise Integration with Azure Logic Apps

By : Matthew Bennett
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Enterprise Integration with Azure Logic Apps

By: Matthew Bennett

Overview of this book

Logic Apps are a visual flowchart-like representation of common programming actions, and are a flexible way to create logic without writing a single line of code. Enterprise Integration with Azure Logic Apps is a comprehensive introduction for anyone new to Logic Apps which will boost your learning skills and allow you to create rich, complex, structured, and reusable logic with instant results. You'll begin by discovering how to navigate the Azure portal and understand how your objects can be zoned to a specific environment by using resource groups. Complete with hands-on tutorials, projects, and self-assessment questions, this easy-to-follow guide will teach you the benefits and foundations of Logic App logic design. As you advance, you'll find out how to manage your Azure environment in relation to Logic Apps and how to create elegant and reliable Logic Apps. With useful and practical explanations of how to get the most out of Logic App actions and triggers, you'll be able to ensure that your Logic Apps work efficiently and provide seamless integration for real-world scenarios without having to write code. By the end of this Logic Apps book, you'll be able to create complex and powerful Logic Apps within minutes, integrating large amounts of data on demand, enhancing your systems, and linking applications to improve user experience.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Logic App Fundamentals
7
Section 2: Logic App Design
13
Section 3: Logic App Maintenance and Management

Summary

In this chapter, I shared with you some of my experiences working within IT and in noticing the fundamental shift from traditional infrastructure, on-premises programming done by experts, to a service model more widely accessible across a cloud network. The focus is less on making exclusive code and more on offering holistic end-to-end services. The marketplace is less about the individual, the supply chain, or specific customers, and is now open to anyone and everyone, at a global level.

We then looked at how to get started by creating a Microsoft 365 account, an MSDN subscription (where this is needed), and an Azure subscription. We looked at the current costs, advantages, and disadvantages, at the time of writing this book. We then took a deep dive into the Azure user interface to understand resources, resource groups, subscriptions, and the notion of a tenant.

Finally, I showed one object (deliberately not a logic app, as these will be covered in later chapters in some detail) and encouraged you to understand the common structure of the Azure resource object panes. I mentioned that an object is split into separate pages and that these pages are accessible via the leftmost blade. Each blade expands from left to right, and each section contains the stages to develop and customize the object further.

Now that you have an Azure account and are familiarizing yourself with the environment, in the next chapter, we will be looking at the resource group in further detail and considering how you can plan an enterprise environment within your tenant.