As a cloud native language, it is paramount to have rich support for cloud service providers. Microsoft Azure is one of the leaders in providing cloud services. Ballerina has integrated support for Azure services such as authentication/authorization services, storage services, and deployment mechanisms. In this session, we will look at how Ballerina can be used to make use of these services to rapidly and easily create a cloud native application.

1. Ballerina Integration with Azure Cloud
Services
Anjana Fernando
Director - Ecosystem Engineering, WSO2 Inc.

2. Ballerina Ecosystem
○ Messaging
○ Storage
○ Observability
○ Security
○ Tooling
○ Deployment

3. Ballerina knows Azure!
Image Credits: Microsoft

4. Ballerina / Azure Messaging
Azure Queue Service

5. Ballerina / Azure Storage
Azure Blob Storage

6. Ballerina / Azure Security
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7. Ballerina / Azure Tooling

8. Ballerina / Azure Deployment

9. Demo

10. Scalable OCR with Ballerina and Azure
Front-end OCR Service
OCR Workers
Job Queue Image Store
User Requests
(data, email)
Result Email
Azure CV - OCR

11. Future Improvements
○ Azure AD support
○ Ballerina authentication framework integration
○ Fully supporting Azure storage services
○ File
○ Table
○ Azure observability integration
○ Metrics
○ Tracing
○ Logging

12. Q & A

13. THANK YOU