Invoke Azure Function in your Visual Studio Team Services CI/CD pipeline

A utility task is available for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to invoke an http triggered Azure function. The ability to invoke a Function from your CI/CD pipeline offers a lot of new possibilities within those pipelines.

Arguments

The Arguments that you can configure on the utility task:

Argument	Description
Azure function URL	The URL of the Azure function to invoke.
Function key	The value of the available function or the host key for the function to invoke.
Request body	The request body for the Azure function call.
Execution mode	Synchronous mode (the default), or Asynchronous call where the Azure function calls back to update the timeline record.
Response parse expression	How to parse the response body for success.

 

Phase

When adding this task to a CI/CD pipeline you have to add a “Agentless phase”. To invoke an Function an agent isn't required.

 

In the agentless phase add the “Invoke Azure Function” task.

 

And configure the action as needed.