Deploying the Azure Function app to Azure Cloud using Visual Studio

So far the function app is just a regular application within Visual Studio. To deploy the function app along with its functions, we need to either create the following new resources or select existing ones to host the new function app:

• The resource group
• The App Service plan
• The Azure Function app

You can provide all these details directly from Visual Studio without opening the Azure Management portal. You will learn how to do that in this recipe.

How to do it...

1. Right click on the project and then click on the Publish button to open the Publish window.
2. In the Publish window, choose the Create New option and click on the Publish button, as shown in the following screenshot:

3. In the Create App Service window, you can choose the existing resources or click on the New button to choose the new Resource Group, the App Service Plan, and the Storage Account, as shown in the following screenshot:

4. In most of the cases, you would like to go...