How to deploy functions app where name is autogenerated using uniqueString

[elygre]

This is perhaps neither a bug nor a feature request, but more of a "how do I...".

We're deploying the infrastructure for a functions app using bicep, where the name of the functions app itself is generated using the uniqueString function: var functionAppName = 'yggdrasil-${uniqueString(resourceGroup().id)}'. This is deployed using a pipeline in Azure DevOps, which is probably relevant.

Now, we also want to automate the deployment of the app itself. The CLI func azure functionapp publish <funcname> needs to know the function name, which is autogenerated.

I guess there are two questions:

• Is there an obvious solution?
• Is publishing the function app something that might be done from within bicep, using the functionAppName variable -- now or in the future?