Read Environment Variables in .NET Azure Functions

.NET Azure Functions can consume environment variables directly as any other .NET applications using System.Environmentclass.

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The following code snippet reads an environment variable named DefaultConnection.

    public class Program
    {
        public static void Main()
        {
            var dbConnString = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("DefaultConnection");
        }
    }

The value of the variable can be stored in your system level environment variables or in development environment, it can be stored in local.settings.json file.

{
  "IsEncrypted": false,
  "Values": {
    "DefaultConnection": "Server=.;Database=mydb;Trusted_Connection=True;MultipleActiveResultSets=true",
    "AzureWebJobsStorage": "UseDevelopmentStorage=true",
    "FUNCTIONS_WORKER_RUNTIME": "dotnet-isolated"
  }
}

In Azure production environment, the variables can be configured in the portal or via CLI tools or other SDKs:

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