This post is part of a series about Azure Functions and PowerShell. Check out the list of other posts in the series!
Intro Creating an Azure Function in the Azure Portal is super easy, just hit Add, select “Function App”, hit Create and fill in the form. This works for a demo, but it only gives us a simple Function App without any customization. There are a few things I always tend to customize when I want to run a Function App in production (or production-like) environments.
Azure Functions is an awesome serverless offering from Microsoft. It lets you deploy a small piece of code as a “function” without having to worry about any underlying infrastructure. A function will then execute on a given event, which for example could be an event from an event service like Event Grid or Event Hubs, a message on a queue like Azure ServiceBus or Azure storage queues, a direct HTTP request like an API call or a webhook, or a timer.
I use a lot of different computers and I have a thing for reimaging my computers way too often. All in all, this means that I find myself sitting in front of a newly installed computer quite often.
One thing that I always to on a fresh computer is to clone a bunch of repos from my personal organization in Azure DevOps that contains my notes and a selection of tools that I want available everywhere I go.
Intro Have you ever wanted to query an API that uses access tokens from Azure Active Directory (AzureAD) from a PowerShell script?
There are a lot of solutions for this that uses an application in AzureAD and authenticates using its client-id and secret. If I have a web application or a non-interactive service this is the way to go. My friend and colleague Emanuel Palm wrote a great post on Microsoft Graph API with PowerShell for that scenario.
Intro I deployed an Azure function using ARM template and then tried to manually add an application setting in the portal.
Got the following error message:
Updating web app settings
The specified container size is not supported. Use one of these container sizes: 128, 192, 256, 320, 384, 448, 512, 576, 640, 704, 768, 832, 896, 960, 1024, 1088, 1152, 1216, 1280, 1344, 1408, 1472, 1536.
Searched on the internet, found this issue: https://github.