Accessing VM drives using TimeTrigger Function App

Question

I have a requirement where i need to delete some files from Azure VM drive. I created FunctionApp (Time Trigger) that will check and delete files from drive folder. I also integrated Function APP with Azure VM VNET. Yet i am getting exception of Access is denied while running Function APP. Is there way to connect Function APP with Azure VM drive (folder under drive.)

Created Function App Created VNET Created VM and integrate with VNet Integrated FunctionAPP with VNet

Function App should run and access drives of VM

Answer 1

When you configure the VNET with function app , The function app will able to access the virtual network .

If there are any issue in this,follow this doc which discuss about step by step instruction

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-create-vnet

Then Create a proxy to access VM resources . With VNet Integration enabled, you can create a proxy in your function app to forward requests to the VM running in the virtual network.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-create-vnet#create-a-proxy-to-access-vm-resources