Introduction

• Azure Functions integrates with Azure services (i.e. Azure Storage) via triggers and bindings

Binding to Azure storage

Binding:

• Input binding: read table storage data
• Output binding: write table storage data

Nuget package: ‘Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Extensions.Storage’

• Integrates Azure storage to function app
• Why ‘WebJobs’ in the package name
  • Azure Functions are built on top of the Azure Web Jobs foundation underneath
  • See: Relation to WebJobs)
• The package will do all the work to connect and get/set data to azure storage

Install-Package Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Extensions.Storage

Table storage

• Integrating with table storage allows function to read and write data to table storage
• Details: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-bindings-storage-table