We are doing implementation of Logic App in our application. We have tried out the logic apps from azure portal and it is working alright. Due to business requirement we need to have capability to logic app using API. After much search in documentation I was not able to find on how to create logic apps using API. How can I do it?
Depends on what your needs are for an API. From a basic standpoint Logic Apps can be created as part of the Azure Resource Management APIs which is used to script or create any Azure resource from an API call.
There is also the Logic Apps SDK which is an extension of the resource management and gives you access to things like "create new", "disable", "enable", etc. Similar story with PowerShell.
Do any of these work for your business requirements?
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This is more of an 'Is this possible' question. A developer on the team suggested using Azure AD for user management, but one of the requirements is that the app admin be able to add/manage user access through the application without having to go to the Azure Portal.
So the question is, is the Graph API (or some other mechanism) full featured enough to replace the portal (at least for basic user set up and management) and allow all actions to be done from the application UI?
Thanks.
Simple answer to your question is Yes. Graph API can be used to manage users and their access to applications instead of using Azure Portal. In fact, Azure Portal itself makes use of Graph API to perform these operations.
You may also need to use Azure REST API if you're planning on managing Azure resources as well through this custom application especially Authorization APIs if you want to manage access to Azure resources (Azure Role-based access control) through your application.
I have created a SCIM enabled App. My only concern is User Provisioning.
Is it allowed to register the app in Azure App gallery without adding the functionality of SSO in the app?
I'm referring to this document by Microsoft
We would recommend both, but it is possible to build an Enterprise App with just provisioning and not SSO. It's something that would probably warrant a discussion on why that choice is being made, in order to ensure that the customer experience when using it is good.
I am looking for scalable hosting for an API but I am getting a little confused with Azure. Ideally I want something that means I don't have to manage OS updates and security, just deploy my API code.
Is this possible with Azure? What do I need to sign up for?
In general, you are looking for the Platform as a service offer. Check What is PaaS?. For the API deployment you should check the Azure App Services. Azure API Management is for advanced API management or when you want to expose multiple APIs using a single gateway.
Looking in the Azure portal, I can see monitoring charts for API apps and Web apps that return information on metrics such as number of requests, cpu time, data i/o, etc.
Is there an API that I can query that will return information on Azure app services?
If you just want to see the list of web apps within a resource group, this can simply be achieved using the Azure Resource Manager API, which is the default API used by the new portal.
We now even have a cool tool to explore these APIs, check https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/blog/azure-resource-explorer-a-new-tool-to-discover-the-azure-api/
The API Reference itself is at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-in/library/azure/dn790568.aspx
I think what you search is named : "Azure Monitoring Services API".
You can get/set metrics.
You can access to the API by a Nuget package :
PM> Install-Package Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Management.Monitoring
Yes, you can.
Please refer to Azure Insights REST API Reference.
We plan to use Windows Azure Mobile Services for several of our commercial apps and would like to create a single data store for users instead of creating it for every mobile service. We don't want to use Microsoft or Facebook... providers due to this issue Multiple apps using a single Azure Mobile Service for Live Authentication?
This way, the user data for all our apps is stored in single separate Custom_Auth database and the users won't need to Register again for our other apps. Should we create a separate mobile service that basically enables custom authentication and acts as a provider for other apps?
Do you see any pitfalls with this approach and what steps would I need to take for creating this custom provider as a separate mobile service?
Basically, we want to create our own provider so that user of one our apps can login to the other apps using the same credentials.
I have read through the following links. Posting them here as they may be useful for others starting out with Authentication and Azure Mobile Services.
http://www.thejoyofcode.com/Generating_your_own_ZUMO_auth_token_Day_8_.aspx
http://www.thejoyofcode.com/Fetching_a_basic_user_profile_in_Mobile_Services_Day_9_.aspx
http://www.thejoyofcode.com/Exploring_custom_identity_in_Mobile_Services_Day_12_.aspx
http://chrisrisner.com/Authentication-with-Windows-Azure-Mobile-Services
Thanks in advance
Hope this helps you
http://chrisrisner.com/Authentication-with-iOS-and-Windows-Azure-Mobile-Services
Someone created a custom authentication API using AZURE
with Parse.com, you are limited to their backend and unfortunately it doesn't have all the nice features as Azure
MS really messed us around with this