First, let's deploy using Visual Studio 2017 since it's quick and easy. A little warning up-front, though: this will overwrite the functions that are already in your Function App, so you'll lose them. Follow these steps to deploy using Visual Studio:
- Right-click your project and select Publish.... You'll be presented with a popup that lets you create a new Function App or select an existing one.
- Since we already have a Function App, we can select an existing one.
- Select Run from ZIP (recommended). This puts your function in a read-only state, but it will closely match your release when you use Azure DevOps in the next section. Besides, you don't even want to be able to change functions in the portal since we ...