RedisToAzureFunction

Goal

• A CLI to write random objects to Redis.
• An Azure function (Time trigger) which reads from the Redis queue.
• Ability to run and debug Azure Functions locally.

Get Redis for Windows

• Get the latest binary from this repo https://github.com/tporadowski/redis.
• Unpack the contents to a folder.
• Run redis-server.exe in your console to run the instance. By default the port used is 6379. You can change that and other default settings by editing redis.windows.conf.

Get Azure Core Tools

• Download the Azure Core Tools from the Github page (https://github.com/Azure/azure-functions-core-tools) or do a direct download from https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2135274 and install it. This should make the Azure Core tools available as CLI.
• Test the CLI by running func --version. If properly installed, that should give a version number.

Running

• Build the solution.
• If not already running, start the Redis server by executing redis-server.exe from the Redis root folder.
• Run R2A.Cli.exe from the output folder of RedisToAzureFunction.Cli project. That will add few objects to the configured queue.
  • The Redis instance name can be configured in the App.config using Server key permanantly or be passed in as a parameter with switch -s or --server.
  • The Redis queue name can be configured in the App.config using QueueName key permanantly or be passed in as a parameter with switch -q or --queue.
• Open a command prompt at the root of RedisToAzureFunction.Function project and run command func start to start the function.