Summary

In this module, you learned how to use GitHub Actions and workflows to implement a CD solution that deploys a container-based web app to Microsoft Azure Web Apps. You also automated the creation and teardown of the deployment environments by using a workflow.

You learned about:

• Options for triggering a CD workflow.
• Controlling workflow execution with job conditionals.
• Deploying to Microsoft Azure with a GitHub deploy action.
• Storing credentials with GitHub Secrets.
• Using GitHub actions to create and delete Azure resources.

Learn more

Here are some links to more information on the topics discussed in this module.

• GitHub Actions documentation
• GitHub Marketplace
• GitHub created actions
• Metadata syntax for GitHub Actions
• Workflow syntax for GitHub Actions
• GitHub Actions usage limits
• Introduction to Docker Containers
• actions/checkout@v1
• actions/upload-artifact
• actions/download-artifact
• azure/webapps-deploy@v1
• azure/login@v1
• azure/docker-login@v1
• Artifact and log retention policy
• Artifacts REST API
• Adding a workflow status badge
• Environments

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