Azure Logic Apps – how it works

In the previous chapter, you learned about Azure Functions, which required a trigger to be executed. The situation is similar with Azure Logic Apps—you need to define specific criteria that tell the runtime when a Logic App instance should be executed. During the execution, even more actions are performed:

  • Input data is converted so it meets initial requirements
  • All conditional flows are executed so one specific execution flow is evaluated
  • Temporary variables are assigned values

The following shows an example of a flow that is executed each day and sets a variable that is used to remove outdated blobs:

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