Getting Started with Azure Functions (AF)
Get an overview of Azure Functions (AF).
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Azure Functions service ticks the usual managed FaaS boxes. It’ s a service that allows us to deploy and manage functions while ignoring the existence of servers.
Functions don’t run on thin air, but this time it’s Azure making sure that they are up and running. The solution scales automatically based on the load. It has monitoring, logging, debugging, security, and so on and so forth.
Note: You might have noticed that this started with the same sentences as those from the other managed FaaS chapters. That is intentional. We wanted to make it easy to compare each solution but also cover everything so nothing is missed if you only follow the examples for one solution.
All the managed FaaS solutions we’re exploring are doing, more or less, the same things, so we can skip that part and jump straight into practical hands-on examples.
Prerequisites
Before we start deploying Azure Functions, we need to set up a few things. We need Azure credentials and a resource group.
We don’t have ...