GitHub Action
Azure WebApp
With the Azure App Service Actions for GitHub, you can automate your workflow to deploy Azure Web Apps using GitHub Actions.
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This repository contains GitHub Action for Azure WebApp to deploy to an Azure WebApp (Windows or Linux). Supports deploying *.jar, *.war, *.zip or a folder.
If you are looking for a Github Action to deploy your customized image into an Azure Webapps container, consider using webapps-container-deploy action.
The definition of this Github Action is in action.yml.
- Checkout Checkout your Git repository content into Github Actions agent.
- Authenticate using Azure Web App Publish Profile or using Azure Login. Action supports publish profile for Azure Web Apps (both Windows and Linux) and Azure Web Apps for Containers (Linux only). Action does not support multi-container scenario with publish profile.
- Environment setup actions
- Setup DotNet Sets up a dotnet environment by optionally downloading and caching a version of dotnet by SDK version and adding to PATH .
- Setup Node sets up a node environment by optionally downloading and caching a version of node - npm by version spec and add to PATH
- Setup Python sets up Python environment by optionally installing a version of python and adding to PATH.
- Setup Java sets up Java app environment optionally downloading and caching a version of java by version and adding to PATH. Downloads from Azul's Zulu distribution.
- Follow the tutorial Azure Web Apps Quickstart
- Pick a template from the following table depends on your Azure web app runtime and place the template to
.github/workflows/
in your project repository. - Change
app-name
to your Web app name. - Commit and push your project to GitHub repository, you should see a new GitHub Action initiated in Actions tab.
Runtime | Template |
---|---|
DotNet | dotnet.yml |
Node | node.yml |
Java | java_jar.yml |
Java | java_war.yml |
Python | python.yml |
# File: .github/workflows/workflow.yml
on: push
jobs:
build-and-deploy:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
# checkout the repo
- name: 'Checkout Github Action'
uses: actions/checkout@master
- name: Setup Node 10.x
uses: actions/setup-node@v1
with:
node-version: '10.x'
- name: 'npm install, build, and test'
run: |
npm install
npm run build --if-present
npm run test --if-present
- name: 'Run Azure webapp deploy action using publish profile credentials'
uses: azure/webapps-deploy@v1
with:
app-name: node-rn
publish-profile: ${{ secrets.azureWebAppPublishProfile }}
on: [push]
name: Linux_Container_Node_Workflow
jobs:
build-and-deploy:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
# checkout the repo
- name: 'Checkout Github Action'
uses: actions/checkout@master
- uses: azure/docker-login@v1
with:
login-server: contoso.azurecr.io
username: ${{ secrets.REGISTRY_USERNAME }}
password: ${{ secrets.REGISTRY_PASSWORD }}
- run: |
docker build . -t contoso.azurecr.io/nodejssampleapp:${{ github.sha }}
docker push contoso.azurecr.io/nodejssampleapp:${{ github.sha }}
- uses: azure/webapps-deploy@v2
with:
app-name: 'node-rnc'
publish-profile: ${{ secrets.azureWebAppPublishProfile }}
images: 'contoso.azurecr.io/nodejssampleapp:${{ github.sha }}'
For any credentials like Azure Service Principal, Publish Profile etc add them as secrets in the GitHub repository and then use them in the workflow.
The above example uses app-level credentials i.e., publish profile file for deployment.
Follow the steps to configure the secret:
- Download the publish profile for the WebApp from the portal (Get Publish profile option)
- Define a new secret under your repository settings, Add secret menu
- Paste the contents for the downloaded publish profile file into the secret's value field
- Now in the workflow file in your branch:
.github/workflows/workflow.yml
replace the secret for the inputpublish-profile:
of the deploy Azure WebApp action (Refer to the example above)
- Azure Login Login with your Azure credentials for Web app deployment authentication. Once login is done, the next set of Azure actions in the workflow can re-use the same session within the job.
on: [push]
name: Node.js
jobs:
build-and-deploy:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
# checkout the repo
- name: 'Checkout Github Action'
uses: actions/checkout@master
- uses: azure/login@v1
with:
creds: ${{ secrets.AZURE_CREDENTIALS }}
- name: Setup Node 10.x
uses: actions/setup-node@v1
with:
node-version: '10.x'
- name: 'npm install, build, and test'
run: |
npm install
npm run build --if-present
npm run test --if-present
# deploy web app using Azure credentials
- uses: azure/webapps-deploy@v1
with:
app-name: 'node-rn'
# Azure logout
- name: logout
run: |
az logout
For any credentials like Azure Service Principal, Publish Profile etc add them as secrets in the GitHub repository and then use them in the workflow.
The above example uses user-level credentials i.e., Azure Service Principal for deployment.
Follow the steps to configure the secret:
- Define a new secret under your repository settings, Add secret menu
- Paste the contents of the below az cli command as the value of secret variable, for example 'AZURE_CREDENTIALS'
az ad sp create-for-rbac --name "myApp" --role contributor \
--scopes /subscriptions/{subscription-id}/resourceGroups/{resource-group} \
--sdk-auth
# Replace {subscription-id}, {resource-group} with the subscription, resource group details of the WebApp
# The command should output a JSON object similar to this:
{
"clientId": "<GUID>",
"clientSecret": "<GUID>",
"subscriptionId": "<GUID>",
"tenantId": "<GUID>",
(...)
}
- You can further scope down the Azure Credentials to the Web App using scope attribute. For example,
az ad sp create-for-rbac --name "myApp" --role contributor \
--scopes /subscriptions/{subscription-id}/resourceGroups/{resource-group}/providers/Microsoft.Web/sites/{app-name} \
--sdk-auth
# Replace {subscription-id}, {resource-group}, and {app-name} with the names of your subscription, resource group, and Azure Web App.
- Now in the workflow file in your branch:
.github/workflows/workflow.yml
replace the secret in Azure login action with your secret (Refer to the example above)
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