As with all other Azure services, it is also possible to create a function app instance by creating it directly in Azure Portal:
- When you log in, click on + Create a resource and search for Function App.
- When you click Create, you will see a screen with a couple of fields that need to be filled in before processing occurs:
As you can see, the preceding form is familiar to the one we used when creating an App Service instance. This is because, under the hood, Azure Functions is powered by this particular service and multiple available features are shared between them. As you can see, you are able to select OS, which ...