Book Image

Serverless Integration Design Patterns with Azure

By : Abhishek Kumar, Srinivasa Mahendrakar
Book Image

Serverless Integration Design Patterns with Azure

By: Abhishek Kumar, Srinivasa Mahendrakar

Overview of this book

With more enterprises adapting cloud-based and API-based solutions, application integration has become more relevant and significant than ever before. Parallelly, Serverless Integration has gained popularity, as it helps agile organizations to build integration solutions quickly without having to worry about infrastructure costs. With Microsoft Azure’s serverless offerings, such as Logic Apps, Azure Functions, API Management, Azure Event Grid and Service Bus, organizations can build powerful, secure, and scalable integration solutions with ease. The primary objective of this book is to help you to understand various serverless offerings included within Azure Integration Services, taking you through the basics and industry practices and patterns. This book starts by explaining the concepts of services such as Azure Functions, Logic Apps, and Service Bus with hands-on examples and use cases. After getting to grips with the basics, you will be introduced to API Management and building B2B solutions using Logic Apps Enterprise Integration Pack. This book will help readers to understand building hybrid integration solutions and touches upon Microsoft Cognitive Services and leveraging them in modern integration solutions. Industry practices and patterns are brought to light at appropriate opportunities while explaining various concepts.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Actions in Logic Apps

The Logic Apps workflow is a combination of triggers and associated actions. In this section, we will give you an overview of actions and how they play an important role in creating the workflow in Azure.

In Logic Apps, each workflow can have one or more actions based on their workflow requirements. Actions are nothing but a set of Microsoft-managed APIs that allow you to develop your workflow design. At the time of writing this book, Logic Apps has built-in support for more than 200 connectors with different sets of action attributes associated with each connector:

Each action within Logic Apps takes a different set of inputs and provides a different set of outputs based on the request data. The

high-level schema definition of a generic action is listed here:

In the following table, we will describe each property of the actions so that you can work easily...