I’ve recently stepped out of my Microsoft comfort zone and have been experimenting with AWS, GCP and OCI. One of my favourite features of Azure is Azure Functions.

I wrote an Azure Function during the pandemic as I needed a way to automagically generate a workout routine, as I could no longer attend my favourite circuit class – the code for this can be found here 🏋️‍♂️.

This is a HTTP triggered Azure Function App that generates a list of exercises for a workout (from a pool of 26 different exercises), pass the query string exercices=(number) to the Function App URL to specify how many exercises you’d like including in the workout and the function app will work it’s magic 🪄.

As this is fairly simple, I thought I’d have a go at adapting this to run as a function within OCI. I put together a short video that walks through the process of creating a function app in OCI, deploying the code and then finally testing the function app, the walkthrough video can be found below, the Python code used can be found here.

I was pleasantly surprised at how straightforward this was, despite a few small hiccups I managed to get this all done in less than a couple of hours ⏱️.