---
title: 'Simple Url Shortner With Powershell and Azure Functions'
date: 2022-02-07T15:03:12+01:00
draft: true
---

In this article we're going to setup a simple url shortner written in Powershell, hosted with Azure Functions and Azure Table Storage for persistence.

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## 1. Creating our resources in Azure

### 1.1 Connect to Azure

```pwsh
Connect-AzAccount
```

### 1.1 Resource Group

```powershell
$resourceGroup = New-AzResourceGroup -Name "simple-url-shortner" -Location "westeurope"
```

### 1.2 Azure Storage Account

```powershell
$storageAccount = New-AzStorageAccount -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroup.ResourceGroupName `
    -Name "simpleurlshorner001" `
    -SkuName "Standard_LRS" `
    -Location "westeurope"
```

### 1.3 Azure Functions

```powershell
$funcApp = New-AzFunctionApp -Name "simpleurlshortner001" `
    -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroup.ResourceGroupName `
    -StorageAccount $storageAccount.StorageAccountName `
    -Runtime "Powershell" `
    -FunctionsVersion 3 `
    -Location "westeurope"

```

## 2. Building our function

```bash
func init simpleurlshortner --powershell
cd simpleurlshortner
func new --name URLHandler --template "HTTP Trigger" --authlevel "anonymous"
```

### 2.1 Create short url

### 2.2 Lookup short url

## 3. Testing

```bash
func start
```

## Resources

- [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/create-first-function-cli-powershell?tabs=azure-powershell%2Cbrowser](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/create-first-function-cli-powershell?tabs=azure-powershell%2Cbrowser)