What is Azure Logic Apps?
Sometimes, you need to integrate multiple services and automate tasks such as sending an email, creating a file, or generating a report based on some input data (maybe a database table or a social media feed). If you work with a specific cloud vendor (in this case, Microsoft Azure), it can be crucial to be able to rapidly develop workflows that can be versioned and are natively integrated with multiple cloud services, using a tool that does not require learning many different concepts to get started. Such a service is Azure Logic Apps, which you will learn about in this chapter.
Azure logic apps – how they work
In Chapter 7, Serverless and Azure Functions and Chapter 8, Durable Functions, you learned about Azure Functions, which required a trigger to be executed. The situation is similar with Azure Logic Apps – you need to define specific criteria that tell the runtime when a logic app instance should be executed. During the execution,...