Serverless para Office 365 using Azure Functions

Overview

Functions have been the basic building blocks of software since the first lines of code were written and the need for code organization and reuse became a necessity. Azure Functions expand on these concepts by allowing developers to create "serverless", event-driven functions that run in the cloud and can be shared across a wide variety of services and systems, uniformly managed, and easily scaled based on demand. In addition, Azure Functions can be written in a variety of languages, including C#, JavaScript, Python, Bash, and PowerShell, and they're perfect for building apps and nanoservices that employ a compute-on-demand model.

At the end of this workshop, you have a lab where you will create an Azure Function that request for an access token to access Office 365 resources using Microsoft Graph.

Objectives

In this hands-on lab, you will learn how to:

• Create an Azure Function App
• Write an Azure Function that uses a http trigger
• Write an Azure Function that uses a timer trigger
• Write an Azure Function that uses a storage queue trigger
• Register an application on Azure Active Directory
• Write an Azure Function that request for an access token and use it to receive resources from Microsoft Graph

Prerequisites

The following are required to complete this workshop labs:

• An active Microsoft Azure subscription. If you don't have one, sign up for a free trial.
• Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer (optional)
• Office 365 Tenant

Exercises

This hands-on lab includes the following exercises:

• Lab 1: Create your first Function
• Lab 2: Create your first Function with Visual Studio
• Lab 3: Create a Function in Azure that is triggered by a timer
• Lab 4: Create a Function triggered by Azure Queue storage
• Lab 5: Calling Microsoft Graph from a Function