How to Deploy private GitHub repo to Azure Web service using ARM Templates

Question

Hi Team,

i was trying to deploy ARM templated from deploy from custome templates using ARM templates.

How to deploy private github repo code into my web service ?

Thanks

Answer 1

Hello @Harish Appana ,

Here are the steps to deploy a private GitHub repo to Azure Web App using ARM templates:

1. Create a service principal in Azure AD with contributor access to your subscription. This will be used to access GitHub.
2. Generate a personal access token in your GitHub account with repo and workflow scope.
3. Store the GitHub PAT as a secret on the service principal.
4. In your ARM template, add the source section to pull from GitHub:

"resources": [
  {
    "type": "sourcecontrols",  
    "apiVersion": "2021-03-01",
    "name": "web", 
    "location": "[resourceGroup().location]",
    "properties": {
      "repoUrl": "https://github.com/<owner>/<repo-name>.git",
      "branch": "main",
      "isManualIntegration": true,
      "deploymentRollbackEnabled": false,
      "githubActionConfiguration": {        
         "codeConfiguration": {
            "runtimeStack": "NODE|16-lts",
            "runtimeVersion": "16-lts"
        }
      }
    }
  } 
]

1. For the deployment section reference the sourceControl resource:

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"dependsOn": ["sourcecontrols/web"]

Hope that helps.

Grace