actions-workflow-samples VS npm-pkg-gen

GitHub Actions for Azure (official examples): https://github.com/Azure/actions-workflow-samples

appcontent.yml - Used to deploy my app content to the Azure App Service. Using this sample provided by Microsoft, with very minor modifications.

It's using GitHub Secrets. This guide helps: https://github.com/Azure/actions-workflow-samples/blob/master/assets/create-secrets-for-GitHub-workflows.md

For this exercise we need a personal access token from github. To ensure that the action has access to the GitHub token which you, by the way, should never expose to the public - we will place it in the secrets of the repo.

First we'll need to make some repo secrets. Here's a nice guide from Azure explaining how to do just that. It isn't difficult at all.

Add Actions secrets for the FTPS credentials. In our example the secret names are WP_USER and WP_PASSWORD.

Yep. For the projects I’ve worked on, the Azure Functions for scheduling were in their own `functions` folder at the root of the repository. Upon successful deployment of the main app, we’d then deploy the functions. Aside from that deployment happening after the main app’s, we use the same deployment configuration as the official example for GitHub Actions with Python functions: https://github.com/Azure/actions-workflow-samples/blob/master/FunctionApp/linux-python-functionapp-on-azure.yml.

We have 1 user that we use for deployment. We keep the username and password of this user in a Secret (all platforms support some form of secrets, here is some docs on Github Actions specifically).

I followed the official documentation (Link) and used the pre-defined template and it worked out of the box.

Voila! We're done. Hopefully, you found this post useful. Do checkout the npm-pkg-gen package if you want to get going fast, and star it on Github if you like it!