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Like many of you, the Azure Functions team and others at Microsoft have been building agents for our day-to-day work using mostly markdown and configuration: like AGENTS.md instructions, skills, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools.

In my last post on how to deploy a serverless Playwright app to Azure Container Apps, I promised that I'd write a follow-up article "soon" on how to run Playwright in Azure Container Apps using a scheduled job.

In the three years since I wrote about running headless browsers with Playwright and Puppeteer in Azure Functions, I've regularly received questions about it.

Azure Static Web Apps includes built-in authentication with identity providers such as Azure Active Directory and GitHub.

A couple of weeks ago, we looked at how to use Puppeteer with Node.js Azure Functions to take screenshots of web pages.

With a recent update to Azure Functions, it is now possible to run headless Chromium in the Linux Consumption plan.

Azure Static Web Apps is a great place to host Blazor WebAssembly apps.

Azure Functions and Azure App Service recently added integration with OpenID Connect (OIDC) providers.

Python runs on IoT devices.

Azure SignalR is a fully managed service that makes it easy to add highly-scalable real-time messaging to any application using WebSockets and other protocols.