Automating Azure Static Web Apps in Azure Pipelines

Azure Static Web Apps were launched earlier in 2021 and out of the box they had the capability to integrate your existing repository and deploy your Static Web App from Azure DevOps. You can reference the full getting started guide for the end-to-end deployment setup. Although, there is a caveat, the whole process is not entirely automated. When you create an Azure Static Web App you are required to copy the Deployment Token from the Azure portal into your variables in Azure DevOps.

While deployment using Azure DevOps is supported, we really want to be better automate our pipeline and take out the manual intervention of having to copy and paste our Deployment Token into our pipelines. The reality is, we are going to need to rotate our deployment token to maintain a highly secure application. Imagine if we were taking part in good security practices and rotated our tokens, but forgot that we had a manual step to update our pipeline variables? This would undoubtedly cause downtime in our Azure Static Web App.

In our pipeline we can create a task that runs a PowerShell script that pulls the latest Deployment token from the Azure portal, then updating our pipeline deployment token with the new token value. This automates what would have been a very manual process!

Here is a sample pipeline that includes this automation task:

If you would like to reuse this task (please send a very warm thank you to Steven Murawski) and you can reference the PowerShell script here.

Good luck and happy automating!

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April Yoho

Senior Developer Advocate

April is a senior developer advocate and DevOps practice lead for GitHub specializing in application transformation and DevOps ways of working. Her focus is working on Microsoft Azure to take customers of a journey from legacy technology, to serverless and containers, where code comes first, while enabling them to take full advantage of DevOps. April was previously a cloud consultant and solution architect for various partners in the UK and brings her years of experience in helping customers ...

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