Specifying storage account name

[okumurays]

This is a Feature Proposal

Description

• Storage account name generates combination of prefix, region, stage, md5 hash and suffix
• However, many developers who use serverless-azure-functions for the first time will often run the default serverless.yaml first, which will result in the following errors:

  Error: DeploymentFailed - At least one resource deployment operation failed. Please list deployment operations for details. Please see https://aka.ms/DeployOperations for usage details.------------------------
  DEPLOYMENT ERROR DETAILS
  ------------------------

  Conflict - {
    "error": {
      "code": "StorageAccountAlreadyTaken",
      "message": "The storage account named slswus2dev6fc3ac is already taken."
    }
  }

• If someone is running in the same region and stage, the storage account name has already been used.
• If we can directly specify the storage account name in serverless.yaml, it will be easy to prevent the above, so it will be very useful

Similar or dependent issues:

• #190
• #256

[tbarlow12]

Hi @okumurays. You absolutely can specify the storage account name in serverless.yaml. But I'm glad you pointed this out, because this is a failure in documentation on our part.

You would specify that in the provider config.

provider:
    storageAccount:
        name: {mystorageaccountname}

[okumurays]

Hi @tbarlow12 .Thank you for your comment. I could specify storageaccount name in the provider config. and it worked well.

So I have added some explanations to DEPLOY.md. https://github.com/serverless/serverless-azure-functions/pull/425

Could you review when you have time?

[knarwari]

Can we specify the appinsight as well like storageAccount?

I want to use existing storage account which is getting used for other purposes also but getting following error.

Conflict - { "error": { "code": "StorageAccountAlreadyExists", "message": "The storage account named mdsptestconn already exists under the subscription." } } How can we use the existing storage account?