Azure Functions
Azure Functions is an event driven, compute-on-demand experience that extends the existing Azure application platform with capabilities to implement code triggered by events occurring in other Azure services, SaaS products, and on-premises systems. With Azure Functions, your applications scale based on demand and you pay only for the resources you consume. Azure Functions provides an intuitive, browser-based user interface allowing you to create scheduled or triggered pieces of code implemented in a variety of programming languages.
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Golang support for Azure Functions
C# and other environments are already supported; it would be nice if Go / Golang was one of them. I'd love to handle web requests using Golang + Azure Functions.
It could provide the "HTTP Requests" via the stdin, while the "HTTP Response" can be given via the stdout. (or whatever those two are called on Windows ;-) )
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Enable custom 3rd party authentication providers
Outside of out of the box providers like facebook and google, provide samples and guidance on how to authenticate with others like LinkedIn.
157 votesI’ve gotten a few questions about this item recently, so I just wanted to give a more detailed status. We still have this on the backlog; it hasn’t been forgotten. But we don’t have a clear timeline for when we would get to it right now. The “unplanned” status just means that it can’t be tied to a timeline, but we do think this is a valid request that we would like to have in the product.
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Support for native Rust Azure Functions
As of February 2019, Azure Functions support native .NET, JavaScript and Python.
Could we please have native support to run Azure Functions written in Rust? To host Rust functions currently we have to pay for a Linux App Service plan and embed our functions within a Docker container. This is expensive just to run a few microservices written in Rust.
Peter Huene has an excellent project for anyone interest in writing Azure Functions in Rust....
113 votesAgree super cool project from Peter – and great to see interest. Recommend checking that out in the interim. Keep the votes coming but no immediate plans to pull this in as a first class language yet.
Thanks
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Enable triggering of Azure functions based on an event in RabbitMQ
Hello, we are having a scenario where we should be able to trigger a function when a message is added to RabbitMQ. This would be really helpful in using Azure functions to integrate with other Message queuing platforms that support AMQP protocol.
97 votesWe just shipped a preview of this functionality today you can try out. In the coming weeks we will enable support to trigger within the Azure Functions Premium plan to receive serverless scale and a function plan to RabbitMQ endpoints within a private network. Please provide feedback and let us know if this meets needs as expected. Details can be found here:
https://dev.to/azure/announcing-the-rabbitmq-extension-for-azure-functions-2mbo
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ASP.NET Core MVC/Web API support
Enable developers to create serverless applications using the ASP.NET Core Web API framework.
85 votesGreat ask. Keep the votes coming. Nothing planned short term.
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Jeff -
Add max calls/per day|hour|minute configuration for throttling
Now- any light ddos attack that Azure will not recognize- will affect me and my account. If I know that my service shouldn't receive more than 10000 calls per day, but I can't setup limits on incoming requests.
"Daily Usage Quota (GB-Sec)"- not bad idea, but it's something internal and synthetic for me. Call/per day- is much more native metrics for users.
80 votesMoving this work item to unplanned, as it is clear that this request is no for a global throughput limit.
We do now offer the ability to limit your maximum instances in the Premium plan, which will allow you to avoid swamping downstream resources. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-premium-plan#plan-and-sku-settings
We prioritized that above a max call per X limit, because our only control to limit throughput is to outright deny some number of requests above a threshold.
Keep the feedback coming!
Alex
Azure Functions Team -
SQL Azure trigger support
Azure functions are great, but a lot of application logic is driven by data in SQL Azure DBs. It would be great to have a trigger based on a SQL Azure row data.
72 votesThis continues to be unplanned. Please keep the votes coming!
- Matthew
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Handle Storage Queue/Service Bus messages in batches
I want to be able to handle multiple messages per function call - we are using a third-party web service which works much more efficiently if the messages are passed to it in batches. I know we could use a timer to trigger the function and grab messages from the queue ourselves but if we do that the function won't scale out automatically.
57 votesNothing planned short term but a great ask. This is an item that could potentially be contributed if interest to do so earlier. Hoping we get this planned soon.
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Jeff -
Allow running headless Chrome (or other browser) in Function apps or Web apps
Basically it's this:
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/introducing-headless-chrome-support-in-cloud-functions-and-app-engineNow obviously Google has a bit of an advantage here what with Chrome being their own tech but there are so many blogs out there with people talking about complicated Docker solutions just to run headless Chrome in the cloud.
It would be great if we could get a solution where we could run Puppeteer in much the same way, or allow web apps to run Chrome without having to be inside Docker and we could manage a pool of Chromes without having to manage Docker as well.
56 votesHeadless Chrome requires some libraries to be installed that aren’t available in the containers we use in Linux consumption. You can, however, run your function app in a Docker container with the libraries installed. Custom containers are currently supported in the Premium and App Service plans. Take a look at this example from a community member of a Dockerfile with the dependencies: https://github.com/estruyf/azure-function-node-puppeteer/blob/master/Dockerfile
- Anthony
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Trigger Azure Function From Table Storage
Allow create, update and delete on a table storage row to trigger an Azure Function.
53 votesLikely best solved in future with Event Grid support so would also be good to let storage team know you want event grid for table storage.
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Support for R
Are there any plans to support R scripts in the future?
53 votesThanks for your feedback. Currently, we don’t have any plans for R support in Functions. We will monitor the votes on this request to accordingly inform the priority on our backlog.
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Should support trigger for Azure Files
This would make hybrid integration scenarios for customers with no IT trivial, anybody can drop a file in a share.
45 votesThe below is still accurate, but updating to better reflect product backlog. Keep the votes coming.
-Colby
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Zip deploy Functions with app level credentials instead of user credentials
Right now you if you want to use zip deploy you need to use user credentials, those can be used to deploy any function anywhere in your tenant. Not really the best way to handle DTAP. Would be nice if you could also the app level credentials which do work for the other deployment options.
37 votesNo change here due to low activity, leaving as unplanned. Keep the votes coming.
—Colby
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Global exception handler
Make it possible to have a global exception handler in C# Azure Functions App project - to be able to handle exceptions in one central location.
35 votesWe are starting to look into the feasibility of this and the experience that people are looking for. If you are interested to provide feedback on how you’d like to see this implemented please comment here https://github.com/Azure/azure-functions-host/issues/4459
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Function App Service support for Azure B2C
If I build a web app using Azure B2C for authentication, I'd like to use it as the authentication provider for Azure Functions too. Although I can set up the same providers, using B2C would be cleaner and enable me to support users with local logins (traditional username and password) too.
35 votesJust since it’s been a while, I wanted to reconfirm that this is planned.
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Add C++ support for Azure Functions
Allow C++ binaries to contains Azure Functions. It could be done by invoking the main in an executable, or a DLL with a specific export method with predefined signature.
C++ allows to control memory usage and allow users to be incredibly fast when used properly. In an environment where scaling is needed, squeezing a few seconds of CPU or lowering a few KB of RAM can translate to hundreds or thousands of dollars in savings.
If memory leaks are a concern, putting aside the fact that C# code can also leak, you could create fail safes for Azure Functions. A…
32 votesThanks for your feedback. Currently, we don’t have any plans for C++ support in Functions. We will monitor the votes on this request to accordingly inform the priority on our backlog.
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Retrieve function app keys from ARM template
Make it possible to set/retrieve function app keys via ARM templates.
This will make it easier to store it in the settings of an other service while rolling out an environment.32 votesWe do have APIs which make this easier, now. It involves the listKeys() method that may be familiar from other services.
We are working on formal documentation (which is why this isn’t flagged as “completed” yet), but some of the details are captured in this GitHub issue:
https://github.com/Azure/azure-functions-host/issues/3994- Matthew
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Julia lang support for Azure Functions
With Julia lang reaching v1.0 last year, it is emerging as a force in machine learning and other scientific computing applications,
https://juliacomputing.com/case-studies/
In particular, BlackRock's Aladdin, Conning Asset Management, and Aviva are all using Julia for financial risk modeling and I see a great opportunity for Julia to impact finance among other things. I'd love to be able to use Julia in Azure Functions for my fintech startup.
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Allow moving Function from Consumption to Service Plan
Currently if you deploy your function on a consumption plan there is no way to move it to an existing Service Plan like any other App Service.
You would need to delete the existing one and redeploy it..28 votesQuick update here – with the announcement of the premium plan we do support moving from consumption to a premium plan. Today this may not work for all consumption apps in a region only because some consumption apps may exist in a “webspace” that doesn’t yet have premium turned on. That said we have CLI commands rolling out in the next few weeks to make this seamless.
Moving to app service plan is a bit trickier as the actual code often lives in a different place on an app service plan (app service local storage) than where consumption needs them (azure storage files) – so moving may not work and currently don’t have any immediate plans to do like “code migration” in addition to changing plans.
You can see a sample of moving plans between apps in this sample here as well: https://github.com/Azure-Samples/functions-csharp-premium-scaler
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Jeff -
The dynamic tier should never run out of sockets
If you have too many connections, you can get SocketExceptions. The dynamic tier was meant to stop us from having to think about server instances, but with a connection limit, the dynamic tier is useless and we are back to the standard service plans.
27 votesThis is an awesome idea, and we’re exploring a few options to make it a reality.
However, the 600 connection limit per instance should be enough for most applications if you’re reusing or closing connections. If you truly need 600 open connections you are likely to run into the 10 minute timeout per execution.
Even after we add this you will still need to be mindful of your connection management.Keep the votes coming!
—Alex
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