Testing Azure Functions Locally with Azurite

Supplying secrets and simulating storage

I’ve been developing Azure Functions with R for the past week. There are some nice basic tutorials to run custom code on ‘Functions’, the basic tutorials all create a simple web app. That is, the docker container responds to http triggers. However, if you want to use a different trigger, you need to have a storage account too. There are two ways to do this: use the actual storage account you created on azure simulate storage with the ‘azurite’ container. [Read More]