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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

Understanding an Azure function

An Azure function is a piece of code or application that is stored within your Azure account as an object. It is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering and provides on-demand execution capabilities. Further details can be found at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/pricing/details/functions/.

The object is published to a resource group. This object can be accessed by a logic app, which can pass data into the function as input parameters and work on the output that's returned.

Functions can be written in a variety of ways but commonly, they are written as C# console apps for use in data formatting or calculations, which cannot easily be done within a logic app alone.

Therefore, if you want to take advantage of the entire .NET Framework's suite of code, which is more extensive than the logic app, or you want to customize your app so that it's tailored to your needs and you can do so easier than within a C# app, you can create and...