In this section, we will walk through the step-by-step deployment of our first serverless Azure Function using the Azure Management Portal.
Deploying a function
Creating an Azure serverless environment
To create your first Azure Function, navigate to Azure Management Portal at https://portal.azure.com. In the left-hand side pane, navigate to New | Compute | Function App. The parameters in the following screenshot will be explained next:

Let's take a moment to elaborate on the Function App deployment parameters.
The App name parameter
The App name parameter is the...