Error loading hostpolicy.dll while deploying .NET Core console app to Azure WebJobs

Question

I have followed this tutorial to deploy a .NET Core console application to an Azure Web Service WebJob.

My app is running locally without any issue (with dotnet

Answer 1

This error could happen if the bitness of your application doesn't match the bitness of your App Service (e.g. publishing a 64-bit deployment to an App Service running in 32-bit mode).

To solve this I had to change the bitness to the correct setting in Azure:

To match the bitness of my publish profile in VS: