Azure functions deploying fail from VS Code

This was the shortest path to a solution for me. This reference:

Key Sample value AzureWebJobsStorage DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-app-settings#azurewebjobsstorage

Lead me to inspecting my azure function app configuration:

And seeing that the AzureWebJobsStorage was missing.

I had already created a storage account, when I tried to deploy my function previously, and evidently, the deployment step created the storage account for me, but failed to add that storage account to the function app configuration.

I retrieved the connection string from:

storage account -> access keys -> connection string

and used the value in the source value of the AzureWebJobsStoage configuration setting.

After adding that configuration, I was able to then run the following command from Visual Studio Code, with the Azure Function App workspace open:

func azure functionapp publish Text-To-Image --build remote

And received a confirmation stating:

Deployment successful. Remote build succeeded!

If you are getting this issue, it means your storage account connection string is different from a function app connection string.

To confirm, you can check function app configuration:

and also check the storage account connection string:

One way is just add the same connection string of storage account into the function app or just create the new function app inside this storage.

Note: This error comes when we accidentally delete the storage account but the function app is still using the connection string of that storage account.

According to my experience, deploy function by clicking the button in VS code sometimes may occur unexpected error message. You can deploy your function by using command func azure functionapp publish <functionAppName> --build remote instead.

Before run the command in your VS code, you need to create a function app first on azure portal. Please choose python 3.7 like below screenshot show when you create the function app on portal(to avoid version issue) because it seems your local python function is 3.7. Then run the command in "Terminal" window of your VS code to deploy the code from local to azure. I usually use this deployment method and always works fine.

What worked for me was I had to create a master branch, then the command tools worked. Also after that, the VS Code tools worked. Only way I figured this out was looking at the error output of the CLI publish command.