Choose consumption plan name

Choose consumption plan name in Azure function app

Create consumption plan with your desire name

 

Issue:

·       How can I create consumption plan with my desire name like App Service plan?

 

Solution:

Unlike App service plan or premium plan, Azure portal doesn’t provide you a way to create a consumption plan with your desire name. You can’t decide consumption plan name at the time of creating the Azure function.

You can only select the plan type as mentioned in below screen.

 

It creates consumption plan name by its own mostly with some random name, like in below screen,

While if you choose App Service plan or Premium plan then you can create hosting plan with your desire name also. You can check same in below screen,

Similarly, in Premium plan you can create with your desire name,

 

 

Now question should be, why should I worry about consumption plan name? I can use the default name also.

And the answer is, in some cases Naming Conventions matters. For example, suppose you have 3 function app for 3 environments like DEV, UAT and PROD and you want to have consumption plan name accordingly like consumptoinDEV, consumptionUAT or consumptionPROD.

As mentioned earlier, you can’t decide the consumption plan name when create through portal then how to achieve it.

Answer is: ARM Template.

 

 

You can check in above screen that ARM template provides you a way to create consumption plan with your own desire name.

Complete ARM template for function app in consumption plan : https://github.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates/tree/master/101-function-app-create-dynamic

 

Now I deployed function app using ARM template and specified my own name and here is the result,

Hope this helps. Please let me know your queries in comment section.

Happy to help. 😊