Introduction

Even after the successful development of your application, and alongside continued maintenance and troubleshooting, there remains the concern of app security. Though covering all the security guidelines wouldn't be possible in just one chapter, we'll touch on a few of the techniques that every developer should follow while working with Azure Functions.

Note

The Azure Functions UI, shown in the screenshots in this chapter, is in preview at the time of writing. If this is still the case when reading this, click on the Preview the new Azure Functions management experience link as shown in Figure 9.1 to navigate to the new UI.

Figure 9.1: Azure Functions—Preview the new Azure Functions management experience

Let's start learning about and implementing the security best practices for Azure Functions.