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Introducing Logic Apps

Penelope Coventry

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Introducing Logic Apps | Penelope Coventry | 17:25 – 17:45 25th October 2017

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Introducing Logic Apps | Penelope Coventry | 17:25 – 17:45 25th October 2017

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Penny Coventry

• MVP: Office Server and Services• 11 years

• Author/Co-author • 10+ SharePoint Books

• Independent consultant

• Trainer & product specialist

• Worked with SharePoint since 2001

• UK Based, work in Europe & US

@pjcov

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Integration problems & automation – Logic Apps

• Software as a Service - SaaS

• One of the Azure serverless application services• Abstraction of servers

• Manage apps not servers• Reduce DevOps

• Event-driven / instant scale• Micro billing• Faster time to market• Combination Azure services is often the best way

• Gluing together disparate systems

• Workflow – Logic – Reusability

• Web and cloud based

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Serverless application platform components

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Logic Apps is Powerful Integration

• Hyperscale Workflow Engine, born in Azure• Faster integration using innovative Visual Designer

• Easy workflow creation with triggers and actions

• Mashup applications, data and services

• Built for mission critical Enterprise Integration

• Create, deploy, manage and monitor

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Visual Studio Tooling

Hosted Logic App Designer

Resource Group Project

Cloud Explorer

XML and B2B artifacts

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Trigger & Run History

Monitoring view

Diagnostics

Alerts

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Enable diagnostic logging

Tracked properties

Tracking API

Operations Management Suite

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Flow is powered by Logic apps

• Successor to SharePoint Designer workflows

• Flow & Logic Apps • Uses public APIs and standard runtime• Workflows defined using JSON formatted models • Leverages same visual designer / editor • Logic Apps can always do everything that Flow can do• Pro tip:

• the "advanced" mode for conditions uses the same language

• Flow has additional UX / experiences • Simplified experience for typical office worker

Flow

Logic apps

Managed APIsor Custom APIs

Uses the Public RESTAPIs for management

Calls into at runtime

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Azure Logic Apps GA July 2016

• Aimed at IT Pros & developers

• Browser – Azure Portal

• Visual Studio• Designer

• Code view – view Workflow Definition Language

• Extensible

• Source control, testing, support, and automation

• Manageability in Azure Resource Management (ARM)

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Components

• Connectors

• Integration Accounts• Trading Partners

• EDI

• XML handling

• Flat File handling

• Business tracking

• Triggers• Recurrence & Adv. Scheduling

• Polling

• Webhook

• Request

• Actions• Invokes Services

• Managed connectors

• App Service APIs

• API Management

• Azure Functions

• Workflow

• HTTP + Swagger

• HTTP

• Behaviors• Retry policy

• Run after

• Limit

• Operation Options

• Response

• Webhook

• Delay

• Terminate

• Message Handling• Compose

• Query

• Table

• Request schema

• Parse JSON

• Xpath & XSLT

• XML Validation

• Flow Control• Scope

• Foreach

• DoUntil

• Switch

• Condition

• Expressions & Operators

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Setting up a dev environment

• VM • Visual Studio Community• Azure Logic Apps Tools for Visual Studio• Enterprise Integration Pack SDK?• PowerShell modules

• Azure (development / test / production)• Web Apps• Integration Accounts ~ repository • Logic Apps / Service Bus / Azure Functions / Azure Event Grid• Need one subscription or one resource group for each Environment• Do not cross Regions with Logic Apps

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Do not be afraid of JSON

• Caution: • Can upset Logic App when editing JSON

• Always Save or check-in to TFS before switching to JSON

• Sometimes cannot switch back until express is valid

• Ensure whole Action configured - might not be able to save

• Ensure you name the Action correctly as soon as you create it

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Microsoft Accounts

• Using more than one Microsoft account caused all kinds of issues locally

• Best to use one account if you can

• Always access Azure Portal via Incognito window

• If you get odd deployment results, close browser and try again

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Auto-merge

• Avoid deploying from Visual Studio when you have Logic App open inside the web editor

• Sometimes they will try to auto-merge

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Connections

• Defined at the Logic App level

• Lives at the Resource Group level

• Last deployment or update wins

• Defined all connection parameters in one Logic App

• Use one connection per destination per Resource Group and share it across many Logic Apps

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Resources – Logic Apps• How to get started:

http://aka.ms/logicapps-tryhttp://aka.ms/logicapps-tutorial

• Logic Apps GitHub: http://github.com/logicappsio

• Logic Apps Blog: http://aka.ms/logicappsblog

• Microsoft Integration on Channel 9: https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Microsoft-Integration

• Twitter: @logicappsio @AzureFunctions

• Logic Apps Ideas: http://aka.ms/logicapps-wish

• Logic Apps Monthly Webcast: http://aka.ms/logicappslive

• Logic Apps documentation: http://aka.ms/logicapps-docs

• Export ARM template from an existing Logic App using Windows PowerShell:https://github.com/jeffhollan/LogicAppTemplateCreator

• Some of the team: Jon Fancey, Kevin Lam, Jeff Hollan, @jeffhollan, Josh Twist, @joshtwist, Jim Harrer

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Resources – Ignite 2017, September 25-29, Orlando: Logic Apps

• BRK2188: Enterprise integration with Microsoft Azure Logic Apps https://myignite.microsoft.com/sessions/55066

• THR2109: Data integration with Azure Logic Appshttps://myignite.microsoft.com/sessions/57069

• BRK3179: Build cloud-first Enterprise integration solutions with Logic Appshttps://myignite.microsoft.com/sessions/54873

• BRK3246: A day in the life of an Azure serverless developer https://myignite.microsoft.com/sessions/54876

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Penelope Coventry

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