Deploying Azure Function using ARM templates

So far, we have been manually provisioning Azure Functions using the Azure Management portal.

In this recipe, you will learn how to automate the process of provisioning Azure Functions using Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates.

Getting ready

Before, we start authoring ARM templates, we need to understand the other Azure services on which Azure Function depends. The following services are automatically created when you create a function app:

As shown in the preceding screenshot, the function app (in this case azurefunctioncookbook-gateway) is dependent on an App Service Plan and a Storage Account:

• App Service plan: This could be either a regular App Service plan or a Consumption...