Azure Functions

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Background on Azure Functions Azure Functions are a serverless offering on the Microsoft Azure platform. Serverless meaning that you don’t need to manage/worry about what server the functions actually run on. If I understand it right, when you setup a new Azure Functions instance, it creates an docker container for your functions inside of your tenant docker container that runs on host. Your functions in there all can sort of interact with each other (to your joy or detriment).