As of the date of this post GitHub Actions is still a beta feature. In order for you to try it out, you will need to sign up for the beta<\/a> first. Feel free to jump to step 4 if you already have a project published on GitHub.<\/p>\n 1- Start by creating any new Visual Studio project. For this blog, I am creating a new Flask Web Project. For more information on how to get started with Flask in Visual Studio take a look at this documentation: Get started with the Flask web framework in Visual Studio<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2- Let\u2019s make sure that our app runs locally without any issues by selecting Debug > Start Debugging (F5)<\/strong> or by using the Web Server<\/strong> button on the toolbar.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 3- Use the Add to Source Control<\/strong> option on the right-hand side of the status bar to Publish to GitHub<\/strong> as shown below.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 4- To add an actions script, create a new YAML file for your workflow in a new directory called .github\/workflows<\/strong> as shown below.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n For this tutorial I am using the following basic YAML script that allows us to deploy our Flask web app on the latest version of Ubuntu using four different Python versions. To learn more about writing GitHub Actions take a look at the following two links:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 5- After saving your YAML script, make sure to commit<\/strong> and push<\/strong> your changes using Team Explorer\u2019s Changes<\/u> and Sync.<\/u> After that visit your GitHub repository by clicking on the URL that shows under the GitHub title as shown below.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 6- On your GitHub repository click on Actions<\/strong> and select your workflow<\/strong>\u00a0to see more details about your workflow. As you can see below, our code runs successfully on the four different versions of Python.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 7- With GitHub Actions you can quickly build, test, and deploy code from GitHub repositories to the cloud with Azure. To do that lets create a new workflow by making an Azure_Deploy.yml<\/strong> file under the same directory .github\/workflows<\/strong> as shown below:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 8- Deploying to Azure requires an Azure account. If you don’t have one, you can get started today with a free Azure account!<\/a> And follow these steps to configure your deployment credentials:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 9- The last step would be to commit<\/strong> and push<\/strong> your changes using Team Explorer\u2019s Changes<\/u> and Sync<\/u> sections as shown on step-5. After that, visit actions on your GitHub repository to make sure that all of your actions are working correctly.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n To learn more about deploying your GitHub code to the cloud take a look at the GitHub Actions for Azure blog<\/a> and try out the GitHub Actions for Azure. If you encounter a problem during the preview, please open an issue on the GitHub repository for the specific action.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n![\"New](\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/08\/2.png\")
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on: push\r\n\r\njobs:\r\n build-and-deploy:\r\n runs-on: ubuntu-latest\r\n steps:\r\n # checkout the repo\r\n - uses: actions\/checkout@v1\r\n \r\n # install dependencies, build, and test\r\n - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}\r\n uses: actions\/setup-python@v1\r\n with:\r\n version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}\r\n - name: Install dependencies\r\n run: |\r\n python -m pip install --upgrade pip\r\n pip install -r requirements.txt\r\n \r\n # deploy web app using publish profile credentials\r\n - uses: azure\/appservice-actions\/webapp@master\r\n with: \r\n app-name: MyFlaskApp\r\n publish-profile: ${{ secrets.azureWebAppPublishProfile }}<\/pre>\n\n
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