Introduction
Deployment is always a hot topic of discussion among developers.
Files can also be deployed to Azure using Visual Studio. In this article, I will be showing you all how to deploy files on Microsoft Public Cloud i.e. Microsoft Azure, using GitHub.
Prerequisites
- Microsoft Azure Account: If not, create your free account clicking here.
- GitHub Account: If not, create your free account clicking here.
Way to do
Once done with the above mentioned prerequisites, let's start!
Step 1 - Create Azure Web App
Go to Microsoft Azure Portal .
Click on New => Web + Mobile => Web App.
Enter details as mention below,
- App Name - Enter a unique name for your Application. This name is unique across Azure.
- Subscription
- Resource Group - Group of related Azure products/service created in Azure Portal. You can select existing resource group or create new.
- App Service Plan / Location - You can select existing App service plan or create new, files will be deployed/hosted at this given Location.
Once done with entering required details, click on Create.
Notification message could be seen once the deployment starts.
And then, finally with Deployment succeeded.
Now, Click => App Services => ' Web app name entered'. Here, we entered as 'deploytoazureusinggithub'.
Once clicked on our Web App, portal will display details with its Overview, as seen in the below image.
Step 2 - Now, we need to link our GitHub account with Web App we created in above step.
To accomplish above task, we need navigate to 'Deployment options' under App Deployment section.
Trick - Enter required action at search box, here in case, enter 'GutHub' and it will open the required option from current blade in portal window,
Select Deployment options => Choose Source (This will list all options available for linking as Source) => GitHub.
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