In this chapter, we looked at what Azure functions are and how we can use them in our Dynamics 365 Business Central extensions to execute .NET code on a cloud environment and to implement serverless processes.
We learned how to create a simple Azure function using Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code and how to use Azure Functions with other Azure services (in particular, how to use Azure Functions and Azure Blob Storage to implement a filesystem in the cloud with Dynamics 365 Business Central).
After reading this chapter, you should understand how to develop, deploy, and use Azure functions to implement business tasks in the cloud in a totally serverless way. In a modern cloud-based ERP, this is a really important feature to master in order to extend the platform's functionalities and to embrace other cloud services.
In the next chapter, we'll learn how to...
