Understanding Azure Integration Services

Azure offers a variety of integration services, all serving different needs. In the next section, we are going to cover different services. This also includes the different IoT services, because some of these services have an overlap with other messaging services.

Chapter 9, Configuring Serverless Computing, covers Azure Service Bus and Event Grid.

We will start with the Azure Relay service.

Azure Relay service

With Azure Relay, you can connect your on-premises application with a gateway in Azure, without having to open a firewall connection or make any other big adjustments to your on-premises network.

You can create an Azure Relay service in the Azure portal. Inside the Azure Relay service, a secure connection is created by using an outbound port and a bi-directional connection to your on-premises application. This connection is dedicated to one client and encrypted using Transport Layer Security (TLS). The on-premises application imports the...