GitHub Actions and Azure - Source Controlling our Code using Git
Before writing a single GitHub Actions workflow, you need a version-controlled project on GitHub. This episode scaffolds a .NET MVC web application with dotnet new mvc inside a WSL Ubuntu environment, then uses VS Code’s Source Control panel to stage the generated files, write an initial commit, and push to a freshly created public GitHub repository — equivalent to running git remote add origin, git branch -M main, and git push -u origin main from the command line.
With the code on GitHub, the episode walks through the GitHub Actions Azure Actions catalogue at github.com/azure/actions, highlighting the azure/login action for authenticating workflows to Azure, azure/cli and azure/powershell for running scripts against subscriptions, azure/arm-deploy for deploying ARM templates, and azure/webapps-deploy for publishing web applications. These actions form the building blocks explored in depth across the rest of the series.
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Deploying Azure Functions and Static Sites with GitHub Actions | Cloud with Chris
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