I have written an Azure Funciton API(using python runtime) to automate the git checkin process(usin gitPython) for some the work which we are doing. It works fine in my local environment. However, when i tried publishing it to azure function, the API failed.
---> Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Script.Workers.Rpc.RpcException: Result: Failure
Exception: ImportError: Failed to initialize: Bad git executable.
The git executable must be specified in one of the following ways:
- be included in your $PATH
- be set via $GIT_PYTHON_GIT_EXECUTABLE
- explicitly set via git.refresh()
All git commands will error until this is rectified.
This initial warning can be silenced or aggravated in the future by setting the
$GIT_PYTHON_REFRESH environment variable. Use one of the following values:
- quiet|q|silence|s|none|n|0: for no warning or exception
- warn|w|warning|1: for a printed warning
- error|e|raise|r|2: for a raised exception
Example:
export GIT_PYTHON_REFRESH=quiet
Stack: File "/azure-functions-host/workers/python/3.7/LINUX/X64/azure_functions_worker/dispatcher.py", line 242, in _handle__function_load_request
func_request.metadata.entry_point)
File "/azure-functions-host/workers/python/3.7/LINUX/X64/azure_functions_worker/loader.py", line 66, in load_function
mod = importlib.import_module(fullmodname)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1006, in _gcd_import
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 983, in _find_and_load
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 953, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1006, in _gcd_import
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 983, in _find_and_load
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 967, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 677, in _load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 728, in exec_module
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
File "/home/site/wwwroot/tableauwkbcheckin/__init__.py", line 7, in <module>
import git
File "/home/site/wwwroot/.python_packages/lib/site-packages/git/__init__.py", line 85, in <module>
raise ImportError('Failed to initialize: {0}'.format(exc))
The reason was GitPython is dependent on "git" executable on the system on which azure function is importing.
My question is : How to install git on the Azure function using App service plan. In general, if we need any additional package to be installed and used by function app, how to do it in azure function.
As a workaround, i am using os.system() to install git binary before importing git.
