Azure Web Apps

Creating an azure webapp

The simplest way to create an azure webapp is using the az cli tool.

e.g.

cd build  # build folder with the generated html files
az webapp up --sku F1 -n my-webapp -g my-rg --subscription $SUB_ID --html

This will create a new webapp "my-webapp" in the resource group "my-rg" under your subscription.

In manually make updates you would do something like

yarn build
cd build
az webapp up -n my-webapp -g my-rg --subscription $SUB_ID --html

Automating deployment with GitHub actions

Notes from: https://github.com/Azure/login

The above steps allow you to manually build and deploy your webapp. Let's automate this with GitHub actions to run on PRs to main branch.

First we need to create a service principle for authentication:

az ad sp create-for-rbac --name "{sp-name}" --sdk-auth --role contributor \
    --scopes /subscriptions/{subscription-id}/resourceGroups/{resource-group}

For example:

az ad sp create-for-rbac --name "babel-webapp-sp" --sdk-auth --role contributor --scopes /subscriptions/$SUB_ID/resourceGroups/babel-rg

If this works you will see something like

{
  "clientId": "<GUID>",
  "clientSecret": "<GUID>",
  "subscriptionId": "<GUID>",
  "tenantId": "<GUID>",
  (...)
}

Now we'll add a GitHub secrete called AZURE_CREDENTIALS will the above json.

• Visit the repo
• Go "Settings" > "Secrets" > "New repository secret"
• Name: AZURE_CREDENTIALS
• Secret: Copy the json output of the az ad sp create-for-rbac command above

Finally, create a github action <your-repo>/.github/workflows/deploy.yml something like this:

name: Deploy Node.js to Azure Web App

on:
  pull_request:
    branches: [main]
    paths: [webpage/**]
  push:
    branches: [main]
    paths: [webpage/**]

env:
  AZURE_WEBAPP_NAME: babel-webapp
  AZURE_WEBAPP_PACKAGE_PATH: './webpage'
  NODE_VERSION: '12.x'

jobs:
  checks:
    if: github.event_name != 'push'
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v1
        with:
          node-version: ${{ env.NODE_VERSION }}
      - name: Test Build
        run: |
          cd webpage
          if [ -e yarn.lock ]; then
          yarn install --frozen-lockfile
          elif [ -e package-lock.json ]; then
          npm ci
          else
          npm i
          fi
          yarn build
  build-and-deploy:
    if: github.event_name != 'pull_request'
    name: Build and Deploy
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@main
    - name: Use Node.js ${{ env.NODE_VERSION }}
      uses: actions/setup-node@v1
      with:
        node-version: ${{ env.NODE_VERSION }}
    - name: az login
      uses: azure/login@v1
      with:
        creds: ${{ secrets.AZURE_CREDENTIALS }}
        allow-no-subscriptions: true
    - name: yarn build and az webapp up
      run: |
        cd webpage
        if [ -e yarn.lock ]; then
        yarn install --frozen-lockfile
        elif [ -e package-lock.json ]; then
        npm ci
        else
        npm i
        fi
        yarn build
        cd build
        az webapp up -n babel-webapp -g babel-rg --html