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Azure for Architects

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Azure for Architects

Overview of this book

Over the years, Azure cloud services has grown quickly, and the number of organizations adopting Azure for their cloud services is also gradually increasing. Leading industry giants are finding that Azure fulfills their extensive cloud requirements. This book will guide you through all the important and tough decision-making aspects involved in architecturing a Azure public cloud for your organization. The book starts with an extensive introduction to all the categories of designs available with Azure. These design patterns focus on different aspects of cloud such as high availability, data management, and so on. Gradually, we move on to various aspects such as building your cloud structure and architecture. It will also include a brief description about different types of services provided by Azure, such as Azure functions and Azure Analytics, which can prove beneficial for an organization. This book will cover each and every aspect and function required to develop a Azure cloud based on your organizational requirements. By the end of this book, you will be in a position to develop a full-fledged Azure cloud.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Creating an event-driven function

In this example, an Azure function will be authored connected to the Azure storage account. The storage account has a container for holding all blob files. The name of the storage account is incomingfiles and the container is orders:

Create a new Azure function from portal. 

As of now, this Azure function does not have connectivity information to the storage account. Azure functions need connection information for the storage account and that is available from the Access keys tab in the storage account. The same information can be obtained using the Azure function editor environment. In fact, it allows for the creation of a new storage account from the same editor environment.

This can be added using the new button beside the Storage account connection input type. It allows for selecting an existing storage account or creating a new storage...