{"id":17611,"date":"2019-04-29T09:33:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T17:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/?p=17611"},"modified":"2019-04-30T06:52:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T14:52:53","slug":"public-preview-of-powershell-in-azure-functions-2-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/public-preview-of-powershell-in-azure-functions-2-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Preview of PowerShell in Azure Functions 2.x"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Over the last six months, we’ve been hard at work integrating PowerShell Core with\u00a0Azure Functions 2.x<\/a>. Today, I’m happy to announce that\u00a0we’re releasing public preview of PowerShell support for Azure Functions 2.x\u00a0<\/a>for Windows (Consumption<\/a>,\u00a0Premium<\/a>, and App Service<\/a> pricing plans).<\/p>\n

<\/a>I already know I want this, give me the good stuff!<\/h2>\n

Learn how to create\u00a0your first PowerShell function in Azure Functions<\/a>, or dive right into the\u00a0Azure Functions PowerShell developer guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/a>What’s Azure Functions?<\/h2>\n

For those that haven’t experienced the joy of using Azure Functions<\/a> yet, it’s an event-based serverless<\/em> platform that enables you to write code in a variety of languages without having to worry about managing infrastructure like VMs or containers. You simply create a function, give it an event trigger, write some PowerShell code, and point your return data at an output binding. That’s it!<\/p>\n

Azure Functions supports a multitude of triggers and bindings<\/a>. Commonly, folks use the HTTP (webhook) triggers to easily create REST API endpoints, but there’s a huge set that supports integration with Microsoft services like Azure and Office 365, as well as 3rd party services like GitHub, SendGrid, and Twilio.<\/p>\n

<\/a>So how does PowerShell fit in?<\/h2>\n

Today, Azure Functions supports a number of development languages<\/a> like C#, JavaScript\/Node, Java, and Python. While these languages are great for developing serverless applications, PowerShell is geared towards cloud and in-guest management, and as a scripting language can be much simpler to use for certain tasks, including integration with Azure and Office 365.<\/p>\n

We built the new PowerShell worker in Azure Functions to take advantage of PowerShell’s ability to natively manage objects. In fact, we’ve already built a bot built on top of Azure Functions that helps out in PRs and issues for the PowerShell GitHub repository<\/a>. Look out for a blog post in the future that talks more about what it does and how we built it.<\/p>\n

<\/a>What’s included today?<\/h2>\n