Playwright + Azure CLI Docker Image

A custom Docker image built on top of the official Microsoft Playwright image, with Azure CLI pre-installed.
This image is intended for CI/CD and automation workflows that require browser-based testing along with Azure operations in a single, ready-to-use container.

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🔍 Overview

CI pipelines often spend significant time installing:

• Node.js
• Playwright dependencies and browsers
• Azure CLI

This image removes that overhead by shipping everything pre-baked, allowing pipelines to focus purely on test execution and result handling.

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✨ What’s Included

• Microsoft Playwright
  • Chromium, Firefox, WebKit
  • Required system and browser dependencies
• Node.js & npm
  • Version bundled and tested with Playwright
• Azure CLI
  • Ready for authentication and Azure resource operations
• Multi-architecture support
  • linux/amd64
  • linux/arm64 (Apple Silicon, ARM runners)

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🚀 Why This Image

Before

• Install Node
• Install Playwright
• Download browsers
• Install Azure CLI
  → Repeated on every pipeline run

After

• Tooling available immediately
• Pipeline runs tests directly

Benefits

• Faster CI execution
• Reduced setup complexity
• Deterministic and reproducible environments
• Cleaner workflow YAML files

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🧪 Typical Use Cases

• Playwright end-to-end automation
• GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps / GitLab CI
• Uploading test artifacts to Azure Storage
• Azure-integrated testing and reporting workflows

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🏗️ Image Tags

• Versioned tags (e.g. 1.0.0)
• latest → most recent stable release

Each tag is published as a multi-architecture manifest, so Docker automatically pulls the correct image for your platform.

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📦 Sample Usage (GitHub Actions)

Below is an example of how this image can be consumed in a GitHub Actions workflow.

name: Run Playwright Tests

on:
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  run-tests:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    container:
      image: aloknecessary/playwright-az-cli:latest
      options: --ipc=host --user root

    steps:
      - name: Checkout repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Install project dependencies
        run: npm ci

      - name: Run Playwright tests
        run: npx playwright test --reporter=list,html

      - name: Upload report to Azure Storage
        if: always()
        run: |
          az login --service-principal \
            --username "${{ secrets.AZURE_CLIENT_ID }}" \
            --password "${{ secrets.AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET }}" \
            --tenant "${{ secrets.AZURE_TENANT_ID }}"

          az storage blob upload-batch \
            -d "playwright-reports/${{ github.run_id }}" \
            -s ./playwright-report \
            --connection-string "${{ secrets.AZURE_STORAGE_CONNECTION_STRING }}" \
            --overwrite