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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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.
60 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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Update Azure Functions sandbox to include Visual FoxPro OLE DB provider
Hi guys
Trying a real blending of old Microsoft and new Microsoft and have encountered a a problem!
I'm trying to read a Visual FoxPro DB from within an Azure Function, but unfortunately the Visual FoxPro OLE DB driver is not installed on function machines.
The driver is available from Microsoft here - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=14839.
It should be as simple as to copy the vfpoledb.dll file into the D:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\System\Ole DB\ directory along with the other OLE DB drivers that are currently included. I have tried to do this myself through the Kudu console but don't have permissions…
10 votesSorry this is unplanned at this time.
- Anthony Chu (PM on Functions)
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Ability to schedule Azure function runtime updates from the portal
Requesting the ability to be able to schedule Azure function runtime updates from the portal. At present the runtime updates are pushed by Microsoft at random times which could impact service availability and customer experience. We need the ability to be able to either define a schedule for the function runtime updates or be able to manually perform those updates at a time that is convenient to the customer.
1 voteThis is a great idea, however we have no plans to implement it in the near future.
Keep the votes coming!
Alex
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Please eliminate sandbox restrictions while running in Docker
Right now the sandbox applies to azure function apps even when they're running in docker. Docker is the sandbox in that case. Further, things like System.Drawing.Common aren't effected on Linux the same as they are on Windows so there should be no issue requiring the sandbox to interfere.
So Azure Functions should disable the sand-boxing when running in docker entirely.
Failing that, it should disable the System.Drawing.Common limitations if running on Linux.
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