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Mastering Azure Serverless Computing

You're reading from   Mastering Azure Serverless Computing A practical guide to building and deploying enterprise-grade serverless applications using Azure Functions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789951226
Length 362 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Massimo Bonanni Massimo Bonanni
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Lorenzo Barbieri Lorenzo Barbieri
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Azure Functions 2.0 Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER
2. Developing and Running Azure Functions 3. Customizing Your Azure Functions 4. Programming Languages Supported in Azure Functions 5. Section 2: Azure Functions 2.0 Deployment and Automation
6. Deploying and Configuring Your Azure Functions 7. Leverage the Power of DevOps with Azure Functions 8. Testing and Monitoring 9. Serverless and Containers 10. Section 3: Serverless Orchestration, API Management, and Event Processing
11. Orchestration as Code - Durable Functions 12. Orchestration as Design - Logic Apps 13. Empowering Your Serverless API with API Management 14. High-Scale Serverless Event Processing with Event Grid 15. Section 4: Real-World Serverless Use Cases
16. Best Practices and Use Cases for Azure Serverless Computing 17. Assessments 18. Another Book You May Enjoy

Exposing your Azure Functions on the internet with ngrok

As you have read in the previous paragraphs, you can use the Azure Functions runtime to host your functions, but the host process exposes your function on the localhost, so you cannot reach them from another PC than the one hosting them.

If you want to expose your functions on the internet and, therefore, solve the problem, you can use ngrok. ngrok is software (running on Windows, macOS, and Linux) that allows you to expose a local server to the internet using a secure tunnel, and it also works if your local server is behind a NAT or a firewall.

  1. To use ngrok, you need to register yourself on the ngrok website and create an account.

ngrok has a free plan that allows you to use the software for free with the limitation of only one process at a time with a maximum of four tunnels and a random port, but it is enough to test...

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