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Serverless computing in Azure with .NET
Serverless computing in Azure with .NET

Serverless computing in Azure with .NET: Build, test, and automate deployment

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Serverless computing in Azure with .NET

Getting Started with the Azure Environment

This chapter will cover the full setup and configuration of the Azure serverless computing environment (Azure Functions) and deploying our first “Hello World” application into it.

The first part of this chapter will cover the basics of getting access to the Microsoft Azure Cloud. If you are already familiar with Microsoft Azure and have access to an Azure account and a subscription, you may choose to skip to Azure serverless computing section.

During the course of this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Learning how to set up a new Azure account and subscription and accessing the Management Portal
  • Understanding the Azure serverless computing environment
  • Deploying an HTTP-triggered Azure Function using the Functions Portal
  • Understanding environment settings and the definition of a function
  • Learning how to clean...

Microsoft Azure Cloud

Azure is a public cloud computing platform powered by Microsoft. Microsoft Azure was first made available to the public in February 2010. Azure data centers are currently available in 40 regions across many countries and are expanding at a rapid rate. Azure offers a variety of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS products. In addition to native Azure products and services, thousands of third-party products can be hosted on the Azure platform.

In this book, we will focus on a native Azure service called the Azure Functions, which is Microsoft' s primary offer for serverless computing.

The Azure Functions is a Functions as a Service (FaaS) offering. As discussed earlier, in a typical Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering, you are responsible for managing your application and data layers, while the vendor manages the hardware, middleware, OS, servers, and networking. In...

Azure serverless computing

The Azure serverless computing offering is called Azure Functions.

Azure offers a number of other "compute-on-demand" services in which you aren't required to manage servers, such as Azure WebJobs and Azure Batch. These services are not Functions as a Service, and are best suited for background or batch processing. These services will be covered in the Appendix A, Azure Compute On-Demand Options.

Hosting Plan

There are two options for hosting plans for the Azure Functions: the Consumption Plan and the App Service Plan.

With an App Service plan, you host the application on Azure App Service.

In general, App Service is a Platform as a Service offering for hosting web or mobile applications...

Deploying a function

In this section, we will walk through the step-by-step deployment of our first serverless Azure Function using the Azure Management Portal.

Creating an Azure serverless environment

To create your first Azure Function, navigate to Azure Management Portal at https://portal.azure.com. In the left-hand side pane, navigate to New | Compute | Function App. The parameters in the following screenshot will be explained next:

Let's take a moment to elaborate on the Function App deployment parameters.

The App name parameter

The App name parameter is the...

Clean up Azure resources

If you have been experimenting with deploying different resources, you may want to delete some of them to keep things organized and to avoid being charged for resources you don' t use. This section will describe the procedure of resource deletion at various levels. Be careful--the delete procedure is irreversible.

Deleting a function

One way to delete a specific function inside the Function App, is to delete it from the function's app Functions list as shown in the following screenshot:

Alternatively, you can also delete by navigating to Functions State | Manage | Delete function:

Deleting the...

Summary

This chapter provided us with a solid introduction to the Azure serverless computing environment and walked us through the deployment of our first Azure Functions application.

In this chapter, we covered the basics of Microsoft Azure cloud and created our first serverless computing environment and a "Hello World" function. We also walked through application settings and environment configuration.

In the next chapter, we will walk through creating an Azure Functions project in Visual Studio and deploying it to our existing Azure environment. We will also set up two other application components: the database and the Web UI to demonstrate a real-world example of serverless computing utilization.

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Key benefits

  • ? Take advantage of the agility, scale, and cost-effectiveness of the cloud using Azure Serverless compute
  • ? Build scalable, reliable, and cost-effecient applications with Serverless architecture and .NET
  • ? Learn to use Azure functions to their fullest potential in .NET

Description

Serverless architecture allows you to build and run applications and services without having to manage the infrastructure. Many companies have started adopting serverless architecture for their applications to save cost and improve scalability. This book will be your companion in designing Serverless architecture for your applications using the .NET runtime, with Microsoft Azure as the cloud service provider. You will begin by understanding the concepts of Serverless architecture, its advantages and disadvantages. You will then set up the Azure environment and build a basic application using a sample text sentiment evaluation function. From here, you will be shown how to run services in a Serverless environment. We will cover the integration with other Azure and 3rd party services such as Azure Service Bus, as well as configuring dependencies on NuGet libraries, among other topics. After this, you will learn about debugging and testing your Azure functions, and then automating deployment from source control. Securing your application and monitoring its health will follow from there, and then in the final part of the book, you will learn how to Design for High Availability, Disaster Recovery and Scale, as well as how to take advantage of the cloud pay-as-you-go model to design cost-effective services. We will finish off with explaining how azure functions scale up against AWS Lambda, Azure Web Jobs, and Azure Batch compare to other types of compute-on-demand services. Whether you’ve been working with Azure for a while, or you’re just getting started, by the end of the book you will have all the information you need to set up and deploy applications to the Azure Serverless Computing environment.

Who is this book for?

This book is for .NET developers who would like to learn about serverless architecture. Basic C# programming knowledge is assumed.

What you will learn

  • • Understand the best practices of Serverless architecture
  • • Learn how how to deploy a Text Sentiment Evaluation application in an Azure Serverless environment
  • • Implement security, identity, and access control
  • • Take advantage of the speed of deployment in the cloud
  • • Configure application health monitoring, logging, and alerts
  • • Design your application to ensure cost effectiveness, high availability, and scale

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Table of Contents

15 Chapters
Understanding Serverless Architecture Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Getting Started with the Azure Environment Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Setting Up the Development Environment Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Configuring Endpoints, Triggers, Bindings, and Scheduling Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Integrations and Dependencies Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Integrating Azure Functions with Cognitive Services API Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Debugging Your Azure Functions Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Testing Your Azure Functions Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Configuring Continuous Delivery Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Securing Your Application Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Monitoring Your Application Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Designing for High Availability, Disaster Recovery, and Scale Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Designing Cost-Effective Services Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
C# Script-Based Functions Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Azure Compute On-Demand Options Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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This book is about the next step in architectures that let you build more scalable software applications with less effort that are less costly to run. It starts at the conceptual level, gets specific about serverless architecture, then dives into how to implement it on Microsoft's Azure platform.Azure Functions are the new idea here: stateless microservices that run devoid of any infrastructure or monolithic application framework. What the book does a great job at is three things: First, it helps you think through how functions may (or may not) add value to your specific situation. Second, it presents functions in the context of an entire application so you can see where it fits within other services ranging from data persistence to RESTful API endpoints to user interface to machine intelligence to security. Third, it guides you through the process of cost engineering your solution, taking into account the various trade-offs that entails.The book is well organized with a clear and direct writing style. It's easy to both skim for the big ideas as well as dive into details and sample code for the areas you want to get hands on experience with. If you are interested in serverless on the Microsoft platform, this is a valuable read.Full disclosure: I had the honor of writing the foreword for this book.
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An excellent introduction to development on Azure without worrying about underlying platform. Whether you're new to Azure or you've been developing apps using server-based technologies (ie: VMs, Service Fabric, WebApps, or Cloud Services), you should check this book out
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So far has been an informative book. I have to admit that Azure Functions are a moving target. .NET Standard is now available and of course no mention of it or the changes it has brought.
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