So I now have a suite of working smoke tests using VS/C# and Playwright. These are working very well as part of a release pipeline in this format below.

This all works well and these stages take on average a total of 8 minutes to complete. So now we are thinking if we build the project and then deploy that to azure then call it from within the pipeline can we shave minutes off this?

Is that possible? Has anyone done it and if so can anyone give me some pointers, guidance in how to achieve this please.
Is Docker the way to go or a function app?

Thanks in advance for any help