🔧 GitHub Actions Playground

Playground for testing ASP.NET Core GitHub Actions and Azure App Service deployments.

Features

• Simple CI pipeline for pull requests.
• Branch protection rules for pushing to main (includes executing the CI pipeline).
• Automated Azure Web App deployment, when pushing to the Server-directory of main.

Azure App Service setup

The Server application was added to Azure with the Azure App Service: Create New Web App... (Advanced) command of the Visual Code extension Azure Tools.
This command creates an Azure App Service-Plan with the required App Service (Web App).

The application can then be deployed with the Azure App Service: Deploy to Web App command of the Azure Tools extension, or with a simple deployment workflow (see azure-webapps-dotnet-core.yml). This requires you to create a repository secret called AZURE_WEBAPP_PUBLISH_PROFILE (Settings -> Security -> Secrets and variables -> Actions -> New repository Secret).

Values entered in the "Secrets and variables"-section are not visible to anyone else. The required publish profile can be downloaded from the Azure portal directly in the corresponding app-service overview page (next to "Start", "Stop", "Refresh" and "Delete").

Initial project setup

• dotnet new webapi -o Server
• dotnet new xunit -o Server.Tests
• dotnet new sln
• dotnet sln add ./Server/Server.csproj
• dotnet sln add ./Server.Tests/Server.Tests.csproj
• dotnet add ./Server.Tests/Server.Tests.csproj reference ./Server/Server.csproj