Securing Azure Functions using Azure Active Directory

In the previous recipe, we learned how to enable security based on client applications accessing Azure Functions. However, if your requirement is to authenticate the end users who are accessing the functions against the Azure Active Directory (AD), then Azure Functions provides an easy way to configure this, called EasyAuth.

Thanks to Azure App Service, from which the EasyAuth feature is inherited, we can do what we need to do without writing a single line of code.

Getting ready

In this recipe, to make things simple, we will use the default AD that is created when you create an Azure account. However, in your real-time production scenarios, you would already have an existing...