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Authentication and authorization options in Azure Functions - Azure Tutorial
From the course: Azure Functions for Developers
Authentication and authorization options in Azure Functions
- [Instructor] Up to this point, all the functions that we've created in this course have anonymous access. In other words, the functions are not secured in any way. For demonstration purposes, and for some public scenarios, this will be okay. However, it's generally a good idea to protect the functions. One option is to use keys. There are three different key categories. These are function keys, host keys, and system keys. For example, if I go to the functions option here, and let's navigate to photos storage function, I can find the function keys option here in the menu. And I can add additional function keys. This kind of keys is apply only to the specific functions under which they are defined. Let's go back to the function app. And let's navigate to the app keys page that we have here. So host keys is other kind of keys that we can create. This kind of keys can be used to access all functions within the function app.…
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