Hands-on Azure Functions with C#: Build Function as a Service (FaaS) Solutions

Chapter Goal: Introduction to Azure Functions and topics covered in the book

No of pages    6

Sub -Topics

1.      Introduction to Azure Functions

2.      What is serverless ?

3.      Azure Web Job Vs Azure Functions

4.      Advantage and Disadvantages

6.      Use cases for Azure Functions

7.      Summary

Chapter Goal: To setup the environment and build your first azure Functions using various tooling

No of pages: 25

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1.       Building Azure function using Azure Portal

2.      Installation guide to setup the environment to run Azure function using Azure Functions Runtime Tool

3.      Build an Azure Functions using Azure Functions Runtime Tool

4.       Installation guide to setup the environment to run Azure Function in VSCode

5.       Build an Azure Functions using VSCode and debugging it

6.      Installation guide to setup the environment to run Azure Functions in Visual Studio 2019 community edition

7.      Build an Azure Function using Visual Studio 2019 and debugging it locally.

8.      Summary

No of pages : 15

Sub - Topics: 

1.      What are Triggers and Bindings ?

2.      Different triggers and bindings available

3.   Use cases of some of the Triggers and Bindings

4.   Build a simple function using a Trigger and Binding using Azure Portal

5.   Summary

Chapter Goal: To introduce the concepts Queue Storage Trigger and SendGrid Output Binding and their use cases by building a project

No of pages: 20

Sub - Topics:

1.   Getting Started with Queue Storage Trigger and Use Cases

2.   Build a sample application with Queue Storage Trigger

3.   Getting Started with SendGrid output binding and Use Cases

4.   Build a sample application with SendGrid output binding

5.   Create a OTP mailer with Queue Storage Trigger and SendGrid output binding

6.   Summary

Chapter Goal: To introduce the concepts Timer Trigger and Blob Storage Binding and their use cases by building a project

No of pages: 20

Sub - Topics:

1.      Getting started with Timer Trigger and its use cases

2.      Build a sample application with Timer trigger

3.      Getting Started with Blob Storage Binding and its use cases

4.      Build a sample application with Blob Storage Binding

5.      Create a Report Generator application with timer trigger and blob storage binding

6.      Summary

Chapter Goal: To introduce the concepts Http Trigger and Table Storage Binding and their use cases by building a project

No of pages: 35

Sub - Topics:

1.      Getting started with HTTP Trigger and its use cases

2.      Routing in HTTP Triggered Azure Functions

3.      Build a sample application with HTTP trigger

4.      Getting Started with Table Storage Binding and its use cases

5.      Build a sample application with Azure Table Storage Binding

6.      Create a To-Do API with HTTP trigger and Table Storage binding

7.      Summary

Chapter Goal: To introduce the concepts of dependency injection and creating a custom binding for a external service for you azure Function

No of pages: 20

Sub - Topics:

1.      Introduction to custom binding

2.      Use cases for custom binding

3.      What is dependency injection

4.      Build a custom binding for Azure Functions

5.      Summary

Chapter Goal:  Understand the concepts and ways to create an azure functions to connect with a Azure SQL Database and perform CRUD operations

No of pages: 40

Sub - Topics:

1.      What is a Serverless API ?

2.      What is Azure SQL ?

3.      Create an Azure SQL DB instance and create a table 

4.      Build a HTTP Triggered Azure Functions to perform CRUD operation on the Azure SQL DB using ADO.NET

5.      Summary

Chapter Goal:  Understand the concepts and ways to create an azure functions to connect with a Azure Cosmos DB using bindings and perform CRUD operations and leverage the Cosmos SDK to interact with Cosmos DB

No of pages: 40

Sub - Topics:

1.      What is Azure Cosmos DB and its use cases

2.      Getting started with Azure Cosmos DB Triggers by building a sample application

3.      Getting started with Azure Cosmos DB Triggers by building a sample application

4.      Build a HTTP Triggered Azure Function to perform CRUD operation on the Azure Cosmos DB using ADO.NET

5.      Leverage the Azure Cosmos DB SDK to interact with Cosmos DB from Azure Function

6.      Summary

Chapter Goal: Understanding the way to gather telemetry data from your Azure Function to analyze and monitor them.

No of pages: 20

Sub - Topics:

2.      Perform Diagnostics for Azure Functions

4.      Restrict the number of scaling instances for function app

Chapter Goal:  Introducing a safer way to store app secrets of your azure functions

No of pages: 20

Sub - Topics:

1.      What is Key Vault ?

2.      Creating  a Key Vault in Azure Portal

3.      Storing keys and secret data in Key Vault

4.      Fetch app secrets from Azure Key Vault in your azure Function

5.      Summary

Chapter Goal: A comprehensive guide to enabling AAD based authentication for azure Function

No of pages: 20

Sub - Topics:

1.      Getting started with Azure Active Directory

2.      What is Authentication and Authorization ?

3.      Implement Authentication and Authorization for your azure Function using AAD

4.      Summary

Chapter Goal: To understand, how to secure your serverless apis using API Management

No of pages: 20

Sub - Topics:

1.      What is API Management

2.      Advantage and Use Cases

3.      Configure API Management for our Functions

4.      Demo

5.      Summary

Chapter Goal: To have a understanding on creating resources in azure to deploy Azure Functions using Visual Studio and VSCode

No of pages: 20

Sub - Topics:

1.      How to deploy your Azure Function using Visual Studio 2019

2.      How to deploy your Azure Function in a Deployment Slot using Visual Studio 2019

3.      How to deploy your Azure Function using VSCode

4.      Summary

Chapter Goal: To understand, how to leverage Azure Devops to give deployments using CI/CD pipelines for your Azure Functions

No of pages: 30

Sub - Topics:

2.      Creating a Repository for your Azure Function

4.      Building a release pipeline for Azure Function and enable CD

Chapter Goal: Running Azure functions on AKS

No of pages: 20

Sub - Topics:

1.      Getting started with Containers and AKS

3.      Deploying your Azure Functions to AKS using KEDA

5.      Summary

Chapter Goal: To understand, How to leverage Azure Cognitive service to build intelligent Serverless apps

No of pages: 30

Sub - Topics:

1.      Getting started with Azure Cognitive Services

2.      Build a severless application to analyze feedbacks using sentiment analysis

3.      Build a serverless application to classify images using azure vision api

4.      Summary

Chapter Goal: To give a basic understanding to the reader on building stateful functions

No of pages: 20

Sub - Topics:

1.      Introduction to Azure Durable Functions and use cases

2.      Advantages and Disadvantages

3.      Application Patterns

4.      Build a sample application to demonstrate the capabilities of Azure Durable functions

5.      Summary

Chapter Goal:  To understand ways to integrate Azure Function in a Logic App workflow

Sub - Topics:

1.      Getting started with Azure Logic Apps

2.      Build a Serverless application integrating Azure Function in Logic App workflow

3.      Summary

Chapter Goal: Designing Azure Functions in a efficient way

No of pages: 15

Sub - Topics:

1.      Design Guidelines and Best Practices

2.      Pitfalls to avoid