Building Azure Functions
Azure Functions are created in the main Azure portal in a Resource Group in the same way as other resources.
When creating a Function App, the App Service plan needs to be selected. This can be either Classic, which allows the creation of a new App Service Plan or reuse of an old one, or Consumption based to use pay-as-you-go and on demand processing.
The Function App takes a few minutes to be created, but once created, functions can be added to perform the tasks required.
The Function App has a number of settings that can be used to configure it once it has been created.
The settings page provides options for setting a daily usage quota for the Function App, accessing development resources including app settings such as connection strings, setting up Continuous Integration, configuring Authentication/Authorization and cross-origin resource sharing and providing a link to a URL that contains the Swagger API definition for a Function App that contains HTTP triggers...