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Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Praveen Kumar Sreeram, Jason Marston
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Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Praveen Kumar Sreeram, Jason Marston

Overview of this book

Microsoft provides a solution for easily running small segments of code in the cloud with Azure Functions. The second edition of Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook starts with intermediate-level recipes on serverless computing along with some use cases demonstrating the benefits and key features of Azure Functions. You’ll explore the core aspects of Azure Functions, such as the services it provides, how you can develop and write Azure Functions, and how to monitor and troubleshoot them. As you make your way through the chapters, you’ll get practical recipes on integrating DevOps with Azure Functions, and providing continuous integration and continuous deployment with Azure DevOps. This book also provides hands-on, step-by-step tutorials based on real-world serverless use cases to guide you through configuring and setting up your serverless environments with ease. You will also learn how to build solutions for complex, real-world, workflow-based scenarios quickly and with minimal code using Durable Functions. In the concluding chapters, you will ensure enterprise-level security within your serverless environment. The most common tips and tricks that you need to be aware of when working with Azure Functions on production environments will also be covered in this book. By the end of this book, you will have all the skills required for working with serverless code architecture, providing continuous delivery to your users.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Deploying Azure Functions using Run From Package

We have been learning about different techniques for developing Azure Functions and deploying them to the cloud.

As you might already be aware, each function app can have multiple functions hosted in it. All the code related to those functions will be located in the D:\home\site\wwwroot folder, as follows:

D:\home\site\wwwroot is the location where the runtime looks for binaries and all configuration files that are required to execute the application.

In this recipe, we will learn about another new technique, called Run From Package (earlier called Run From Zip) to deploy the Azure Function as a package.

Using Run From Package, we can change the default location to an external storage account.

Getting ready

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