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In the past few weeks, we have been doing a migration of our platform from one Azure account to another and I have been using this as an opportunity to update different parts of our deployment pipelines. While doing this I have become more familiar with Azure CLI and soon enough became a fan (not a literal fan, just a fan of Azure CLI).

In the following article, I am going to show you how to build a dynamic HTTP proxy using Azure Functions and very little code. If you feel like reading code rather than reading an article about code, go straight to GitHub and have it your way.

You might be asking yourself, what is a dynamic HTTP proxy and why would I need one? You could think of it as a service registry that also allows you to proxy the http calls to the services it registers, so a dynamic HTTP proxy, DHP or DHTTPP for short.

Ever wanted to run some heavier initialization when your function app starts, but couldn't do it in the Startup class? Well, in this article I will walk you through creating a simple Azure Functions trigger that fires only once, exactly when you need it …🥁… when the runtime starts.

If you'd rather see the code and skip the explanation, you can go straight to GitHub and check it out.  Or, if you prefer to just use it and trust me that it works, you can go to NuGet and take it from there.