GitHub Actions #1

In this walkthrough, we will do Azure CLI Login using GitHub Actions

• Create AD App
  • Login to Azure subscription. Create a service principal with a secret.
  • Copy the json output of the command for creating the secret

az ad sp create-for-rbac --name "githubActions" --role contributor --scopes /subscriptions/<subscripionId>/resourceGroups/<rgName> --sdk-auth

AD App

• Create GitHub Secret
  • Login to GitHub, and browse to the setting for your repo.
  • Go to Secrets, click New repository secret
  • Create secret name AZURE_CREDENTIALS
  • Paste the value you copied when creating AD App

Add Secrets

• Create Workflow
  • Browse to Actions.
  • You can select sample workflow templates or click on “set up a workflow yourself”

Workflow template

• Copy the code to the workflow

# This is a basic workflow to help you get started with Actions

on: [push]

name: AzureDemo

jobs:

  build-and-deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    
    - uses: azure/login@v1
      with:
        creds: ${{ secrets.AZURE_CREDENTIALS }}
    
    - run: |
        az account show

• Commit the change to repo

• Go to Actions

• Click on the running job to see the status/output