Reducing Cost wih Azure Functions

For most scenarios, github webhook usually provides enough information to its destination but lack of info that require integration from other tools

Tradicionally , the implementation and integration of tools is achieved with a pipeline that is deployed on premise/cloud/hybrid environment with a CI tool available in the market which also increase cost in management and maintenance

The same desired state can also be achieved by using azure function as a centralized managed CI tool that is focused on the code to be executed rather than infrastructure to be implemented to obtain the desired output

Features

• Azure Function access is managed by azure RBAC roles

• Azure Function provide environment variable in case human interaction is required

• Code to be published and maintained is detached from a specific CI tools language model

• Managed identities provide a layer of security to access and store credentials and custom configuration in azure storage or azure keyvault

• Managed identities can also provide access to other resource as database in case a statefull workflow is necessary

• Endpoint target are unaware and completely isolated from changes ocurring in this workflow allowing to detach this process from the value added chain