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Hands-On Azure for Developers

By : Kamil Mrzygłód
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Hands-On Azure for Developers

By: Kamil Mrzygłód

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure is one of the fastest growing public cloud service providers in the market currently, and also holds the second highest market share after AWS. Azure has a sophisticated set of services that will help you build fault-tolerant and scalable cloud-based applications. Hands-On Azure for Developers will take you on a journey through multiple PaaS services available in Azure, including App Services, Functions, and Service Fabric, and explain in detail how to build a complete and reliable system with ease. You will learn about how to maximize your skills when building cloud-based solutions leveraging different SQL/NoSQL databases, serverless and messaging components, and even search engines such as Azure Search. In the concluding chapters, this book covers more advanced scenarios such as scalability best practices, serving static content with Azure CDN, and distributing loads with Azure Traffic Manager. By the end of the book, you will be able to build modern applications on the Azure cloud using the most popular and promising technologies, which will help make your solutions reliable, stable, and efficient.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)

Creating Logic Apps and integrating services

As Azure Logic Apps is also targeted at non-developers, the process of creating instances and working with them is quite straightforward. In this section of this chapter, you will learn how to work with them in Azure Portal and Visual Studio and how to integrate multiple services and use actions to control a workflow.

Creating Logic Apps in Azure Portal

To create an instance of a Logic App, follow these steps:

  1. Click on + Create a resource and search for Logic App. When you click on the Create button, you will see a simple form that allows you to create a new instance of a Logic App:

  1. In fact, the only extra thing you are able to configure here is enabling Azure Log Analytics...