Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook - Second Edition

Getting ready

Before, we start authoring ARM templates, we need to understand the other Azure services on which Azure Function depends. The following services are automatically created when you create a function app:

As shown in the preceding screenshot, the function app (in this case azurefunctioncookbook-gateway) is dependent on an App Service Plan and a Storage Account:

• App Service plan: This could be either a regular App Service plan or a Consumption plan.
• Storage account: The Azure Function runtime uses the Storage account to log diagnostic information that we can use for troubleshooting. 
• Application Insights: You need an optional Application ...