Penelope Coventry gave a presentation on Logic Apps at the SPUnite17 conference. She discussed how Logic Apps can be used for integration problems and automation by combining Azure services in a serverless environment. Logic Apps provides a visual designer to create workflows with triggers and actions that connect applications, data, and services. It enables fast and scalable integration for both developers and IT professionals.

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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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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 APIs
or Custom APIs
Uses the Public REST
APIs 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-try
http://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
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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 Apps
https://myignite.microsoft.com/sessions/57069
• BRK3179: Build cloud-first Enterprise integration solutions with
Logic Apps
https://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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Questions? | Thank You!
Penelope Coventry
penny.coventry@p3c.co.uk
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