© The Author(s), under exclusive license to APress Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2023
R. Sawhney, K. ChanumoluBeginning Azure Functions https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9203-7_3

3. Understanding Azure Functions Triggers and Bindings

Rahul Sawhney1   and Kalyan Chanumolu1
(1)
Hyderabad, India
 

This chapter teaches you two main components of Azure Functions: triggers and bindings.

This chapter covers the following topics.

  • Overview of triggers and bindings

  • Register binding extensions

  • Binding expression patterns

  • Creating an Azure Blob Storage–triggered function

Overview of Triggers and Bindings

A trigger defines the external event that can invoke the Azure function. Each function can have only one trigger. Triggers usually carry data associated with the ...

Get Beginning Azure Functions: Building Scalable and Serverless Apps now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.

Start your free trial