Azure Logic Apps is the Azure's workflow as a
service and an integration/connective tissue between various services
on-premise, hybrid and cloud applications. It has been instrumental in enabling
the running of mission critical, complex integration scenarios with ease. It is
currently marked as a leader in iPaaS offerings quadrant. 200+ connectors
available for out-of-box enabling Messaging, Data Wrangling, B2B and EDI,
Hybrid EAI, Process automation, Smart SaaS(Cognitive, ML etc.) on a serverless
platform including capabilities for event-driven scale, abstraction of servers
and micro billing.
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1 Azure Logic Apps Landscape |
What is Integration Service Environments or ISE?
ISE is an
offering on Azure Integration Services and will fulfill the scenarios where logic apps and
integration accounts need access to an Azure virtual network.
An ISE is an isolated
and dedicated environment in Azure. It promises to fulfill all enterprise-scale
integration needs. It uses dedicated storage and other resources kept separate
from the public or "global" Logic Apps service. This separation also
reduces any impact that other Azure tenants might have on apps' performance.
The Logic App or Integration account in ISE can then directly access resources,
such as virtual machines (VMs), servers, systems, and services, in the same
virtual network. It is as good as deploying Logic App as a Service in a VNET.
Creating ISE steps
are documented here. Some
screenshots for reference from the tarmac of my experience with the private
preview.
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Figure 2
Create ISE Blade
Figure 3 Create ISE
Figure 4 Validations Check Screen
Figure 5 ISE Deployment progress screen
Some of the salient features of ISE are listed below
Direct, secure access to your virtual network
resources. Enables Logic Apps to have secure, direct access to private
resources, such as virtual machines, servers, and other services in a virtual
network including Azure services with service endpoints and on-premises
resources via an Express Route or site to site VPN.
Consistent, highly reliable performance. Eliminates
the noisy neighbor issue, removing fear of intermittent slowdowns that can
impact business critical processes with a dedicated runtime where only private
Logic Apps execute in.
Isolated, private storage. Sensitive data
subject to regulation is kept private and secure, opening new integration
opportunities.
Predicable pricing. Provides a fixed monthly
cost for Logic Apps. Each Integration Service Environment includes the free
usage of 1 Standard Integration Account and 1 Enterprise connector. If the Logic
Apps action execution count exceeds 50 million action executions per month, the
Integration Service Environment could provide better value.
Watch
out this space for some more details in comings details with potential
scenarios we test.
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