Create Azure Function - Queue Trigger In Azure Portal

Introduction

This article will help you learn how to create Azure Function – Queue Trigger in Azure Portal.

Before reading this article, please go through some important articles mentioned below,

Azure Function

Azure Functions is a serverless computing service and is hosted on the Microsoft Azure public cloud. It is designed to accelerate and simplify application development. The cloud provider takes care of all the headaches of running the server, dynamically managing the resources of the machine, etc. It also provides auto scalability.

Serverless applications, also known as Function-as-a-Service or FaaS, is an offering from most of the enterprise cloud providers in which they allow the users to only write code and the infrastructure behind the scenes is managed by them.

Azure Functions is the event-based serverless application framework which can automatically scale up and down based on the executions that are being triggered. This Microsoft Azure service allows you to run small pieces of code in Node.js, C#, Python, PHP and Java without any infrastructure configurations.

Here, we will see about Azure Function.

Purpose

Azure Functions lets you execute your code in a serverless environment without having to first create a VM or publish a web application.

Key Features

Intuitive, browser-based user interface - You can write code in the easy-to-use web interface.
write code in different programming languages
pay per function execution
parallel execution when multiple triggers occur
Supports Continuous Deployment and Integration

Queue Storage

Queue Storage in Azure allows users to store multiple messages in it. Users can use a queue to create a list of items that are processed one by one. Messages to Queue Storage in Azure can be added by using HTTP or HTTPS endpoints. Usually, a queue can store data up to 64 KB in size.