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I already know about the Azure App Configuration for storing application configurations such as connection strings for my Azure apps. However, I am now working on an Azure Functions app where I have to store a more complex configuration for my application.

The configuration consists of mappings where for each entry I have a key/id and multiple values associated with it. Ideally, I'd like to store this in a database table, but setting up a whole database just to store this configuration seems a bit excessive to me. There will be about 200 entries in this table and I don't expect this number to grow much in the future. Is there a way to store this in a way how it can easily be edited later using an Azure App Configuration, or do I really need to create a new database just for this purpose? Is there maybe another alternative which I didn't consider so far?

Chris
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Following suggestion is under the assumption that you are not going to edit that data frequently

One way to do is to create a hash table and store in configuration section in Function App. During run time, you can access the data. And for editing you just need to copy whole data from config section , edit it (using notepad++) and update it back to config section.

Though this is not an ideal way , it’s far better than having an dedicated DB just for this purpose ( plus the DB cost )

Venkatakrishnan
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  • Thanks for the suggestion! Do you have an example for this? I am not exactly sure what you mean when saying `hash table`. – Chris Apr 05 '22 at 12:00
  • Something like below in a key-pair format. @{ “key1” = “value1” “key2” = “value2” } – Venkatakrishnan Apr 05 '22 at 12:34