In the Azure portal, we need to create a function app for creating Azure Functions. A function app provides the execution context for individual functions. All configuration done at the function-app level will be applied to all Azure Functions. The following is an example of an Azure Function app named ShipAnyWhere-AzureFunction and a function called UpdateInventory:
These function apps are run and maintained by the Azure App Service platform, which is an Azure service used for hosting web applications, REST APIs, and mobile backends. The following is a layer diagram showing the dependencies of an Azure Functions runtime over other Azure technologies:
From the preceding diagram, it is clear that the root of Azure Functions is the Azure App Service platform, which brings following core capabilities to Azure Functions:
- It provides the ability...