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Before you dive to how to create timer Triggered Azure Functions, you need to know What Azure Function is.If you are very new to Azure Functions, please read my previous blogs on Fundamentals of Azure Functions
Create Azure Function App
Step I: Login to Azure Portal. If you don’t have an Azure subscription, create a free account before you begin.
Step II: Click Create a resource in the upper left-hand corner of the Azure portal, then select Compute > Function App.
Step III: Provide App Setting Details as stated.
Step IV: After you submit the App Setting Details and click Create as shown in above figure, you Azure Function will start deploying.
Step V: After Successful deployment you will receive a notification in Notification bar as shown in figure, from where you can go to Azure Function App.
Now we can browse directly to the resource group where our app is deployed and we can also pin the App to Azure Dashboard. Pinning the Azure Funtion in dashboard makes us easier to browse into the newly deployed Azure Function App.
Now we will learn how to create different types of Trigger Azure Functions based on types of events. If you dont have clear ideas about this please refer to my Previous blog Introduction to Azure Functions
Now we will learn how to create Azure Functions in different scenarios
- Create Azure Function triggered by a timer
- Create Azure Function to backup all Databases in SQL Server using Powershell triggered by a timer.
- Create Azure Function triggered by Azure Blob storage.
- Create a function triggered by a generic webhook.
- Create a function triggered by a GitHub webhook