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Serverless computing in Azure with .NET

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787288393
Pages 468 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Title Page
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
1. Understanding Serverless Architecture 2. Getting Started with the Azure Environment 3. Setting Up the Development Environment 4. Configuring Endpoints, Triggers, Bindings, and Scheduling 5. Integrations and Dependencies 6. Integrating Azure Functions with Cognitive Services API 7. Debugging Your Azure Functions 8. Testing Your Azure Functions 9. Configuring Continuous Delivery 10. Securing Your Application 11. Monitoring Your Application 12. Designing for High Availability, Disaster Recovery, and Scale 13. Designing Cost-Effective Services 14. C# Script-Based Functions 15. Azure Compute On-Demand Options

Continuous delivery for functions


Now that our TextEvaluation project source code is in source control, we can configure a CI/CD pipeline to build, test, and release (publish) our code to our Azure Function App with every commit. We will use VSTS as our continuous delivery tool.

Before we configure the CI/CD pipeline, let us configure a staging deployment slot.

Deployment slots

As briefly mentioned before, deployment slots are an Azure PaaS feature which allows for a zero-downtime swap between your application environments. A deployment slot is, essentially, a replica of your production environment, which can be swapped with production by a DNS change handled by the Azure platform.

This feature is commonly used by developers to deploy production-ready code to a staging slot for final testing. If the staging deployment passes the tests, it can be promoted to production. Furthermore, if any issues are reported after deployment to production, the slots can be swapped back (since your former production...

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