This document provides an overview and summary of Azure Logic Apps and API Apps. It discusses how Logic Apps allow users to easily automate business processes across Software as a Service (SaaS) applications and on-premises systems using a visual no-code designer. It also describes how API Apps make it simple to build and consume APIs in Azure. The document highlights some of the key capabilities and built-in connectors for Logic Apps, and tools for developing APIs in API Apps using Visual Studio. It provides a comparison of features between Logic Apps and the previous BizTalk Services offering.

1. @BrisbaneAzureUG
meetup.com/Brisbane-Azure-User-Group

2. First Look:
Azure App Service Logic Apps

3. who?
Lee Simpson
Solution Delivery Lead at Mexia
https://au.linkedin.com/pub/lee-simpson/0/214/997
Architect, team leader, agile practitioner, integration specialist
Dan Toomey
Senior Consultant at Mexia
@Daniel2Me
Integration specialist, Pluralsight author, Azure Advisor, BizTalk UG leader

4. Agility Insight
Hyper-scale

5. Mobile
Services
Key app services in Azure previously
Azure
Websites
BizTalk
Services

6. Key Learnings
• Validated the brand & cloud design patterns
• Hybrid is critical & a differentiator
• Feature & capability gaps:
• Out of box sources & destinations
• Pipeline templates, custom code support
• Long running workflows, parallel execution
• Needs a lot more investment!
BizTalk
Services

7. LearningEffort
Complexity of problem

8. LearningEffort
Complexity of problem
HACK ZONE

9. LearningEffort
Complexity of problem
HACK ZONE

10. iPaaS
Leader
Rich
Ecosystem
Democratize
Integration

11. Mobile
Services
Key app services in Azure today
Azure
Websites
BizTalk
Services
Azure App Service

12.  Unique integrated offering
 Build rich, engaging & intelligent apps
 Scale as your business grows
Azure App Service

13. API APPS
Easily build and consume
APIs in the cloud
WEB APPS
Web apps that scale with your
business
LOGIC APPS
Automate business process
across SaaS and on-premises
MOBILE APPS
Build Mobile apps for any
device
One integrated offering

17. Easily use cloud or custom APIs:
• Dozens of built-in APIs for popular SaaS
• An ecosystem of APIs for any need
• Create and publish custom, reusable APIs
• Visual Studio tooling with one click publish
and remote debugging
• Automatic client SDK generation for many
languages
Create, consume and
host APIs more easily
API APPS

18. • Box
• Chatter
• Delay
• Dropbox
• Azure HD Insight
• Marketo
• Azure Media Services
• OneDrive
• SharePoint
• SQL Server
• Office 365
• Oracle
• QuickBooks
• SalesForce
• Sugar CRM
• SAP
• Azure Service Bus
• Azure Storage
• Timer / Recurrence
• Twilio
• Twitter
• IBM DB2
• Informix
• Websphere MQ
• Azure Web Jobs
• Yammer
• Dynamics CRM
• Dynamics AX
• Hybrid Connectivity
• HTTP, HTTPS
• File
• Flat File
• FTP, SFTP
• POP3/IMAP
• SMTP
• SOAP + WCF
• Batching / Debatching
• Validate
• Extract (XPath)
• Transform (+Mapper)
• Convert (XML-JSON)
• Convert (XML-FF)
• X12
• EDIFACT
• AS2
• TPMOM
• Rules Engine
Connectors
Protocols BizTalk Services
Built-in API Connectors

19. • Framework for
representing
RESTful APIs
• Open source
• http://swagger.io/

20. • Azure SDK 2.5.1
• Visual Studio 2013
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2015/03/24/introducing-the-azure-api-apps-tools-for-visual-studio-2013.aspx

21. • Azure SDK 2.5.1
• Visual Studio 2013
• Bare-bonesWeb API projects
with Swashbuckle (Nuget)
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2015/03/24/introducing-the-azure-api-apps-tools-for-visual-studio-2013.aspx

22. • Azure SDK 2.5.1
• Visual Studio 2013
• Bare-bonesWeb API projects
with Swashbuckle (Nuget)
• Microsoft Azure API Apps
(Preview) publish target
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2015/03/24/introducing-the-azure-api-apps-tools-for-visual-studio-2013.aspx

25. New Logic Apps for easy automation
• No code designer for rapid creation
• Dozens of pre-built templates to get started
• Out of box support for popular SaaS and on-
premises apps
• Use with custom API apps of your own
• BizTalk APIs for expert integration scenarios
Automate SaaS and
on-premises systems
LOGIC APPS

27. EAI Features v1 v2
XML Transformation
Validation
Content Based Routing
Request Response
AD Auth
OAuth
Flat File
JSON
XML
Connector Extensibility
Custom Code
B2B Features v1 v2
AS2 / X12 / EDIFACT
Agreement Decoupling
Batching / De-batching
Archiving
Transform
Trading Partner Management
(API & Portal
Vertical Extensibility
Tracking
Customer Code
Workflow Features v1 v2
Long Running
Browser Designer
Control Flow
Instance Management
Tracking
Large Messages (1GB)
Config Support
Expressions
Rules Features v1 v2
Vocabulary
Policy
Sources (XML only today)
Test Policy
Browser Rule Editing
Other Features v1 v2
OOB Connectors
Marketplace
Hybrid Connectivity
Custom Code Isolation
Unified Portal
Auto Update with Opt Out
V1 = BizTalk Services
V2 = App Services (BizTalk + Logic)

28. Architecture
The Azure Resource manager is a highly-scalable geo-distributed system
that handles millions of resources across 100,000’s of subscriptions. Can
create 200 node cluster in < 5 minutes!

29. Same underlying engine…
Resource Manager
• Can handle thousands of parallel
deployments per stamp
• Resilient against failure – retries
with “at least once” guarantee
• Simple, declarative JSON template
• Automatically infers dependences
between resources
Logic Apps
• Can handle thousands of parallel
runs per stamp
• Resilient against failure – retries
with “at least once” guarantee
• Simple, declarative JSON
definition
• Automatically infers dependences
between actions

30. … more power
Resource Manager
• 8 functions for basic referencing
and string functions
• Can only PUT resources into
resource groups
• Auth must be through AAD
• Triggered manual through UI or
API
Logic Apps
• Over 50 functions from string
manipulations to math, to sets
operations, to logical operators
• All HTTP operations supported on
any arbitrary endpoint
• Supports many OAuth providers,
AAD, Cert auth, or Basic auth
• Different ways to be triggered
including recurrence

32. Logic apps for orchestration across API apps
1. Implicitly – whenever you reference
the output of an action you’ll depend
on that action executing first
2. Explicit “dependsOn” condition –
you can mark certain actions to run
only after previous ones have
completed
3. Explicit “expression” condition – a
complex function that evaluates
properties of other actions

33. Repeating
• Loop a single action over a list of items
• Runs the action N times
• You can get at all of the statuses for each action
• Tip: when you have multiple collections use:
• "repeat" : "@range(0,length(body('connector1')))"
• …
• "inputs" : "@concat(body('connector1')[repeatItem()],
body('connector2')[repeatItem()])"

34. Conditionals
• Logic on a trigger or action
• For triggers conditionals are post-conditions
• For actions conditionals are pre-conditions
• You can do conditionals inside of repeats
to perform as a filter

35. {
"parameters": {
...
},
"triggers": {
...
},
"actions": {
...
},
"outputs": {
...
}
}
Logic Apps Workflow definitions

38. http://channel9.msdn.com/Azure
Windows Azure Area on

39. http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015

40. Logic App References
API App References