Support Anaconda in-built image

[prashanthmadi]

• Installs some of the best and most used libraries by default
• Easy to install modules with conda compared to pip(+wheels)
• Most of engineers running python on functions v2 might use it for data processing with pandas or other libraries. they might not be interested in going through extra steps for installing them..

[prashanthmadi]

Looks like there is already a concern for image size in another issue. i will close this.

[asavaritayal]

Re-opening to gauge demand. Re: image size, we can definitely investigate supporting the Miniconda image if there is enough customer traction on this.

[ahmelsayed]

This issue is not really actionable. I don't know what the ask here is. If you want to use some custom python version you can drive from the python image we have and install anything on top of it. feel free to reopen this issue if there is any actionable work here.

[asavaritayal]

The ask here is to support a separate version of Python i.e. the Anaconda distribution as an OOB option on Functions on Linux.

[prashanthmadi]

heard that we do not support wheels during pip install with/without new oryx thing.. having conda might help or adding support for pip(+wheels) might make the whole build and packaging system better.

[prashanthmadi]

@asavaritayal I don't think most of the customers that use python functions would know about docker and i have personally seen many enterprise customers not even be able to install docker on their local machines due to hyper-v (blocked as security limitation in many companies)..

I would be happy to start a new thread on providing wheel support if required..

I'm looking for something as in below link i have blogged about earlier which helped many customers.
https://prashanthmadi.github.io/2016/12/09/install-python-modules-on-azure-app-services-new.html

we should remove that docker limitation in order to deploy/use native python modules.

[prashanthmadi]

Looks like this is being already discussed in below
Azure/azure-functions-python-worker#432

[prashanthmadi]

Any update on this ?