Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook - Second Edition

Creating a new Cosmos DB collection

Perform the following steps:

1. Once the account has been created, you need to create a new database and a collection. We can create both of them in a single step, right from the portal.
2. Navigate to the Overview tab and click on the Add Collection button to create a new collection:

3. You will be navigated to the Data Explorer tab automatically, where you will be prompted to provide the following details:

Field Name	Value	Comment
Database ID	cookbookdatabase	This is a container of multiple Cosmos DB collections.
Collection ID	cookbookdatacollection	This is the name of the collection ...