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Deploy an app to App Service ................................................................................................ 2
 
Download and test the app ................................................................................................................................................. 2
 
Create the Azure App Service Web App ......................................................................................................................... 4
 
Deployment with Visual Studio .......................................................................................................................................... 5
 
Deployment slots ..................................................................................................................................................................... 8
 
Summary .................................................................................................................................................................................. 11
 
Additional reading ................................................................................................................................................................ 12
 
Continuous integration and deployment with Azure DevOps ......................................... 13
 
Publish the app’s code to GitHub
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Disconnect local Git deployment ................................................................................................................................... 14
 
Create an Azure DevOps organization ......................................................................................................................... 15
 
Create a team project in Azure DevOps organization ........................................................................................... 15
 
Configure a self-hosted agent if necessary ................................................................................................................ 15
 
Configure the Azure Pipelines pipeline ........................................................................................................................ 16
 
Grant Azure DevOps access to the GitHub repository ...................................................................................... 16
 
Create the build definition ........................................................................................................................................... 18
 
Create the release pipeline ........................................................................................................................................... 21
 
Commit changes to GitHub and automatically deploy to Azure ....................................................................... 26
 
Examine the Azure Pipelines pipeline ........................................................................................................................... 27
 
Build definition .................................................................................................................................................................. 27
 
Release pipeline ................................................................................................................................................................ 30
 
Additional reading ................................................................................................................................................................ 33
 
Continuous integration and deployment with GitHub Actions .......................................................................... 34
 
GitHub Actions .................................................................................................................................................................. 34
 
Secure code with CodeQL ............................................................................................................................................ 34
 

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Compare and contrast GitHub Actions and Azure Pipelines .......................................................................... 35
 
Compare and contrast GitHub Actions and Azure Pipelines ............................................................................... 35
 
Pipelines as code .............................................................................................................................................................. 35
 
Agents and runners ......................................................................................................................................................... 35
 
Comparison of GitHub Actions and Azure Pipelines ......................................................................................... 37
 
Feature comparison ........................................................................................................................................................ 37
 
Recommendation table for common scenarios ....................................................................................................... 39
 
Build a .NET web app using GitHub Actions .............................................................................................................. 39
 
Workflow structure .......................................................................................................................................................... 40
 
Create a basic build workflow ..................................................................................................................................... 40
 
Dissect the workflow file ............................................................................................................................................... 44
 
Publish the output ........................................................................................................................................................... 45
 
Deploy a .NET web app using GitHub Actions .......................................................................................................... 48
 
Environments ..................................................................................................................................................................... 48
 
Azure authentication....................................................................................................................................................... 49
 
Add environments ........................................................................................................................................................... 51
 
Deploy to staging............................................................................................................................................................. 53
 
Deploy to production ..................................................................................................................................................... 56
 
Add a manual queue option ........................................................................................................................................ 60
 
Handle environment configuration........................................................................................................................... 61
 
Final workflow file ............................................................................................................................................................ 64
 
Secure .NET Code with CodeQL and GitHub Actions ............................................................................................. 66
 
Create the code scanning workflow ......................................................................................................................... 67
 
Customize CodeQL settings ......................................................................................................................................... 70
 
Review the security alerts ............................................................................................................................................. 71