1. Getting Hands-On with Azure Logic Apps
Stephen W. Thomas
Independent Consultant
@StephenWThomas

2. About Me Live here in Austin Integration expert
Consulting for almost 20 years - Started with Anderson Consulting
14 years as an Independent Consultant in Integration
Pluralsight and QuickLearn trainer
13 year Microsoft Most Valuable Professional
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Loves crypto currency, AI, and IOT

3. Pluralsight Courses Azure Logic Apps: Getting Started
3 BizTalk Course and 1 Travel Course
New courses available:
Azure Logic Apps: Getting Started
Azure Logic Apps: Fundamentals

4. Contact Me

5. Biggest Challenges in Azure Today?

6. Knowing What Azure Technology To Use When
Azure Today?
Knowing What Azure Technology To Use When

7. Keeping Current With Azure
Azure Today?
Keeping Current With Azure

8. Serverless No server setup required No capacity planning needed
Pay only for what you use
High availability
No need to deal with your in-house Infrastructure team

9. Serverless is the Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread?

10. History Lesson
Otto Frederick Rohwedder of Davenport, Iowa, United States, invented the first loaf-at-a-time bread-slicing machine in 1912
First commercial sliced bread was available in July 7, 1928
Sliced bread was shortly banned in the US in 1943 to support the war
As commercially sliced bread resulted in uniform and somewhat thinner slices, people ate more slices of bread at a time, and ate bread more frequently, because of the ease of eating another piece of bread. This increased consumption of bread and, in turn, increased consumption of spreads, such as jam, to put on the bread

11. Logic Apps

12. Where Logic Apps Fit
Part of Microsoft Integration

13. What are Logic Apps
“Connect your business-critical apps and services with Azure Logic Apps, automating your workflows without writing a single line of code.”
Connecting
Integrating
Hybrid

14. Costs Actions - $0.000025 (1/400 of a cent)
Standard Connectors - $ (1/80 of a cent)
Enterprise Connectors - $0.001 (1/10 of a cent)
Integration Accounts
Basic - $0.42 per hour (~ $300 a month)
Standard - $1.37 per hour (~ $1,000 a month)

15. Logic Apps in Azure Portal
Dive into Logic Apps
Logic Apps in Azure Portal

16. Logic App Basics Two designer options Workflow definition in JSON
Web-based
Visual Studio
Workflow definition in JSON {
"$schema": "<schema-of the-definition>",
"contentVersion": "<version-number-of-definition>",
"parameters": { <parameter-definitions-of-definition> },
"triggers": [ { <definition-of-flow-triggers> } ],
"actions": [ { <definition-of-flow-actions> } ],
"outputs": { <output-of-definition> } }

17. Logic App Basics Connectors Triggers Actions Flow Control
First class Azure artifacts (Flow and PowerBI)
Over 200+
Friendly wrappers around API
Triggers
Polling
Recurrence
Event-based
Web-hook
Actions
Building blocks for a Logic App
Flow Control
If-Else
Switch
For-each
Do-until
Scope
Parallel

18. Integration Accounts Adds BizTalk-like features to Logic Apps
Maps, Schema, Partners, Agreements, and Certificates
Support for EDI, Flat File and XML
Plus Enterprise Connections to MQ and SAP
Cost for Integration Account is separate from Logic Apps

19. Dive into Logic Apps
Integration Accounts

20. On-premises Data Gateway
Hybrid Scenarios
On-premises Data Gateway

21. Event Grid Support
Automatic support for subscribing to all Event Grid activities
Build workflow around events in Azure
Supported sources
Azure Subscriptions (management operations)
Event Hubs
IoT Hub
Resource Groups (management operations)
Service Bus
Storage Blob
Storage General-purpose v2 (GPv2)

22. Logic App Deployment Advice
Using Visual Studios creates an Azure Resource Managed (ARM) Template
Can more than one Logic App per ARM
Supports binding / configuration files per environment
Use PowerShell for deployment

23. Logical Logic App Tips Rename the shape right away if desired
Do not be afraid of JSON
Yes you will end up breaking a Logic App from time to time
Save and check-in often
Did you know that For-Each loops run in parallel by default?
You can change this by editing the JSON file
Content-type of the inbound trigger are very important
In the cloud must play by the rules of the platform
429 rate limits vary per connector

24. Mission Critical Links
Connector list -
Handle content types - apps/logic-apps-content-type
Handle errors and exceptions - apps/logic-apps-exception-handling
Workflow definitions - us/rest/api/logic/definition-language

25. Lightning Clothing
It’s Striking!

26. Lab Azure Technologies Used Scenario Windows Azure Logic Apps
Office 365 Connector
Twilio Connector
Cognitive Services Connector
Functions
Cognitive Services
You work for Lighting Clothing. They have a team of resources that monitor social media and , but sometimes critical negative feedback messages are not handled in a timely manner. They need a system to monitor messages and generate a real-time text message when an is received with negative feedback.

27. Lab Office 365 Account Twilio Account Azure Functions
We can all share the same account by setting a unique Subject
Or use your own
Use the API key and phone number provided
Or use your own API key
Azure Functions
Cognitive Service – Text Analytics API
Use provided URL
Or follow step-by-step instructions to build it yourself
Use provided Key and URL
Or follow step-by-step instructions to create one on your subscription

28. Questions, Comments, Lab Feedback