Azure Storage Action

Deploy Files in Azure Blob Storage

With Azure Storage Action, you can automate your workflow to deploy files to Azure Blob Storage

End-to-End Sample Workflows

Dependencies on other Github Actions

• Checkout Checkout your Git repository content into Github Actions agent.
• Setup DotNet Sets up a dotnet environment by optionally downloading and caching a version of dotnet by SDK version and adding to PATH .

Create Azure Storage Account and deploy static website using GitHub Actions

1. Follow the tutorial Azure Storage Account)
2. Copy the following example of workflow and create the workflow to .github/workflows/ in your project repository.
3. Change folder to your folder path where files to deploy are.
4. Commit and push your project to GitHub repository, you should see a new GitHub Action initiated in Actions tab.

Sample workflow to deploy a Static Web Site to Azure Blob Storage

# File: .github/workflows/workflow.yml

on: [push]
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps: 
    - uses: actions/checkout@v1
    - uses: actions/setup-dotnet@v1
      with:
        dotnet-version: '3.0.100'
    - uses: lauchacarro/Azure-Storage-Action@master
      with:
        enabled-static-website: 'true'
        folder: 'MyFolder'
        index-document: 'index.html'
        error-document: '404.html' # For Angular apps with routing enabled, this must point to the index.html file because the requested routes don't exist phyiscally and blob storage would throw a 404.
        connection-string: ${{ secrets.CONNECTION_STRING }}

Configure connection string:

For any credentials like Azure Service Principal, Publish Profile, Connection Strings, etc add them as secrets in the GitHub repository and then use them in the workflow.

The above example uses the Connection String of your Azure Storage Account.

Follow the steps to configure the secret:

• Follow the tutorial View and copy a connection string and copy the connection string.
• Define a new secret under your repository settings, Add secret menu.
• Paste the connection string file into the secret's value field.
• Now in the workflow file in your branch: .github/workflows/workflow.yml replace the secret for the input connection-string: of the Azure Storage Action (Refer to the example above).