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Azure for Architects - Third Edition

By : Ritesh Modi, Jack Lee, Rithin Skaria
Book Image

Azure for Architects - Third Edition

By: Ritesh Modi, Jack Lee, Rithin Skaria

Overview of this book

Thanks to its support for high availability, scalability, security, performance, and disaster recovery, Azure has been widely adopted to create and deploy different types of application with ease. Updated for the latest developments, this third edition of Azure for Architects helps you get to grips with the core concepts of designing serverless architecture, including containers, Kubernetes deployments, and big data solutions. You'll learn how to architect solutions such as serverless functions, you'll discover deployment patterns for containers and Kubernetes, and you'll explore large-scale big data processing using Spark and Databricks. As you advance, you'll implement DevOps using Azure DevOps, work with intelligent solutions using Azure Cognitive Services, and integrate security, high availability, and scalability into each solution. Finally, you'll delve into Azure security concepts such as OAuth, OpenConnect, and managed identities. By the end of this book, you'll have gained the confidence to design intelligent Azure solutions based on containers and serverless functions.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Index

Webhooks

Webhooks became famous after the advent of REST endpoints and JSON data payloads. Webhooks are an important concept and architectural decision in the extensibility of any application. Webhooks are placeholders that are left within special areas of an application so that the user of the application can fill those placeholders with endpoint URLs containing custom logic. The application will invoke the endpoint URL, automatically passing in the necessary parameters, and then execute the login available therein.

Azure Automation runbooks can be invoked manually from the Azure portal. They can also be invoked using PowerShell cmdlets and the Azure CLI. There are SDKs available in multiple languages that are capable of invoking runbooks.

Webhooks are one of the most powerful ways to invoke a runbook. It is important to note that runbooks containing the main logic should never be exposed directly as a webhook. They should be called using a parent runbook, and the parent runbook...