Recommended infrastructure for challenges
Development Environment
For the creation of analytics and monitoring dashboards you may use PowerBI. Therefore it is highly recommended to install PowerBI Desktop.
The pure Azure related challenges can be realized directly in the Portal without further tools.
Some relevant online resources
Deploy lab to your Azure environment
- Follow this setup manual
- After the pipeline has been executed successfully, the components including the function’s API is ready to use and the demo-application is available composing this URL:
https://grodcssa{YOUR-SUFFIX}.z6.web.core.windows.net
Note: The URL looks different when you deploy to another Azure Region. In case of any troubles navigate to your Storage Account in the Portal and use the URL displayed in the section “Static website”
Notes to work on challenges
- The deployed Azure components are not connected or bound to the initial deployment source and won’t get updated by others
- If you need to better understand the application or the cause of some behaviour you may look into the source which is the folder
Foundation
of this repository. There is also a small architecture documentation.