Serverless computing in Azure with .NET

Vendor-specific limitations

Some disadvantages of serverless computing are vendor-specific and luckily do not apply to Azure Functions. We will overview them briefly here, as you may see references to them online:

• Environment configuration: In some serverless computing environments, it is difficult to set environment-specific variables (for instance, dev/test/prod settings) for each function. In Azure Functions, each Function App has a local.settings.json file that defines configuration settings in a manner similar to traditional .NET applications. In an Azure environment, these settings are located in the Function App. This also means that the recommended approach is to deploy dev, test, prod, or other environments into separate Function ...