Beginning Azure Functions: Building Scalable and Serverless Apps

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R. Sawhney, K. ChanumoluBeginning Azure Functions https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9203-7_2

2. Creating Azure Functions

Rahul Sawhney¹   and Kalyan Chanumolu¹

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Hyderabad, India

 

In this chapter, you will learn how to create an Azure function using the Azure portal and Visual Studio Code. You will also gain insight into a function’s file hierarchy, configuration, and settings.

In this chapter, you start using Azure Functions. The latest runtime version is 4.0, which is used throughout the book’s examples. Over the course of this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Creating an Azure portal account

• Creating functions using the Azure portal

• Azure Functions ...