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Published in Mar 2017

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ISBN-13 9781786465573

Pages 696 pages

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Authors (6):

Gyanendra Kumar Gautam

Ashish Bhambhani

Abhishek Kumar

James Corbould

Mahindra Morar

Martin Abbott

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Robust Cloud Integration with Azure

Credits

Foreword

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Preface

1. An Introduction to Systems Integration in the Cloud

2. What Is an Azure App Service?

3. Getting Started with API Apps

4. What is Azure API Management?

5. Trigger Your First Logic App in Azure

6. Working with Connectors in Logic Apps

7. Azure Functions in Logic Apps

8. A Deep Dive into Logic Apps

9. Powerful Integration with SaaS Using Logic Apps

10. Advanced Integration with Powerful, Scalable Service Bus in the Cloud

11. Connecting to Event Hubs and an Introduction to IoT Hubs

12. EAI/B2B Integration Using Logic Apps

13. Hybrid Integration Using BizTalk Server 2016 and Logic Apps

14. Tooling and Monitoring for Logic Apps

15. Whats Next for Azure Integration?

Chapter 2. What Is an Azure App Service?

	Change is the essential process of all existence.
	--Mr. Spock, Star Trek

This chapter defines the details and capabilities of an Azure App Service. The chapter then explores the basics of the four building blocks of an App Service: the web app, mobile app, API app, and logic apps.

We will then introduce our sample solution for a fictional company named Sunny Electrical Manufacturing.

In this chapter you learn the following topics:

What is an Azure App Service?
Why you should consider developing applications using App Service
What are Azure Resource Groups and how should we use them?
What is an App Service Plan?
An introduction to our hypothetical company

What is an Azure App Service?

An Azure App Service is a new composite PaaS service for developing web apps (websites and web applications), logic apps (data orchestration components), API apps (web services), and mobile apps (mobile backend services) all under the one service. Previously, these services were being offered as individual Azure services.

The table here describes the cross pollination between the old Azure services and the new App Service:

App Service plans

An App Service plan determines the set of features and capacity you require for your apps and services to use. Also, it allows you to group several Azure resources together to share one pricing tier, thereby reducing costs.

There are five different pricing tiers: free, shared, basic, standard, and premium. The table here describes the overall features available for each type of pricing tier. For a more detailed list of the capabilities, see this link: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/app-service/plans/ .

New name	Old name	Functionality
Web apps	Azure websites	The new name for Azure websites. The Web Hosting Plan now termed App Service Plans.
Mobile apps	Azure mobile services	A new app type that integrates previous mobiles services functionally. Can now integrate with on-premise and SaaS systems, WebJobs, and includes scaling options.
Enterprise Integration Pack	Azure BizTalk services	Allows users to perform enterprise application integration with App Service app types. Allows users to perform B2B integration scenarios...

An overview of our sample solution

Rather than giving you simple disparate samples of code for each chapter, we decided to develop a full-blown IT solution for a manufacturing and distribution company. This will show you how all the Azure artefacts can be integrated together to provide a working solution. By the end of this book, you should be able to appreciate how Azure services makes integration simpler and easier.

Our solution is based on a fictitious company named Sunny Electrical Manufacturing. This company manufactures electrical equipment for the electrical wholesale market. They source raw materials from suppliers around the world for their manufacturing division. Sunny Electrical Manufacturing encourages self-service for suppliers and customers. Suppliers are allowed to view stock levels of their products that they supply to automatically raise purchase orders.

Sunny Electrical Manufacturing wants to offer better serviceability by incorporating IoT devices in their products to...

Summary

This chapter gave you an overview of Azure App Service and compared how the old Azure Services relates to the new Azure App Service. We covered the basic fundamentals of the different types of services and pricing tiers available.

We then introduced our fictitious company Sunny Electrical Manufacturing and described how Azure is used to integrate the components of the solution.

In the next chapter, we will describe how to get started building an API App.

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Authors (6)

Gyanendra Kumar Gautam

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Ashish Bhambhani

Ashish Bhambhani is an Integration Sr. Premier Field Engineer working for Microsoft. He lives in the Seattle region. He has been working in the integration space for more than a decade. In his current role he helps Microsofts enterprise customers by architecting, designing, building, and maintaining their integration solutions. Recently, he has been able to roll out Azure technologies enterprise-wide for his clients and replace their legacy solutions. He is a content creator and master trainer for some of a Microsofts training that is delivered to clients worldwide. Additionally, he was part of the team that wrote the BizTalk performance whitepaper for msdn.com

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Abhishek Kumar

Abhishek Kumar works with New Zealand Trade and Enterprise as an integration and data specialist. He is a Microsoft Azure MVP with deep expertise in software development and design. He is a co-author of Robust Cloud Integration and a seasoned contributor to Microsoft blogs, forums, and events. As a technological evangelist, he is specialized in cloud-based technologies such as Azure Functions, Microsoft Graph, Logic Apps, Web API, and Cosmos DB, along with various Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) such as Salesforce, Office 365, and ServiceNow. As a technology advocate, he promotes loosely coupled solution design along with event-based programming.

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James Corbould

James Corbould has been working in the IT sector since 2003, developing and supporting applications in New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Since 2010, James has been working in the software integration field, designing and building integration solutions using Microsoft technologies such as BizTalk, SQL Server, WCF, .NET, and now Azure, for a wide range of different customers. Recently, he has been working in the health insurance sector and in the building supplies sector.James currently works for Datacom Systems as a consultant and team lead.

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Mahindra Morar

Mahindra Morar has been working in the IT sector from 1997, developing Windows and website enterprise applications. In 2009, he has been focusing primarily on integrating systems as a principle integration consultant. Having come from an electronics engineering background, he is able to use this knowledge to design solutions that integrate between wetware, software and hardware.

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Martin Abbott

Martin Abbott is a Microsoft Azure MVP living in Perth, Western Australia. He started his career developing subroutines for commercial computational fluid dynamics software, eventually moving on to more mainstream development and systems integration. He has been working with BizTalk Server since the early days of the product, has spent a lot of time with WCF, but more recently has moved in to providing his customers with integration solutions spanning both on-premises and cloud workloads.

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