Configure deployment credentials for Azure App Service

To secure app deployment from a local computer, Azure App Service supports two types of credentials for local Git deployment and FTP/S deployment. These credentials are not the same as your Azure subscription credentials.

• User-level credentials: one set of credentials for the entire Azure account. It can be used to deploy to App Service for any app, in any subscription, that the Azure account has permission to access. It's the default set that's surfaced in the portal GUI (such as the Overview and Properties of the app's resource page). When a user is granted app access via Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) or coadmin permissions, that user can use their own user-level credentials until the access is revoked. Do not share these credentials with other Azure users.

• App-level credentials: one set of credentials for each app. It can be used to deploy to that app only. The credentials for each app are generated automatically at app creation. They can't be configured manually, but can be reset anytime. For a user to be granted access to app-level credentials via (RBAC), that user must be contributor or higher on the app (including Website Contributor built-in role). Readers are not allowed to publish, and can't access those credentials.

Note

The Development Center (Classic) page in the Azure portal, which is the old deployment experience, will be deprecated in March, 2021. This change will not affect any existing deployment settings in your app, and you can continue to manage app deployment in the Deployment Center page.

Configure user-scope credentials

Azure CLI

Run the az webapp deployment user set command. Replace <username> and <password> with a deployment user username and password.

• The username must be unique within Azure, and for local Git pushes, must not contain the ‘@’ symbol.
• The password must be at least eight characters long, with two of the following three elements: letters, numbers, and symbols.

az webapp deployment user set --user-name <username> --password <password>

The JSON output shows the password as null.

Azure PowerShell

You can't configure the user-scope credentials with Azure PowerShell. Use a different method, or consider using application-scope credentials.

Azure portal

You can configure your user-scope credentials in any app's resource page. Regardless in which app you configure these credentials, it applies to all apps for all subscriptions in your Azure account.

In the Azure portal, you must have at least one app before you can access the deployment credentials page. To configure your user-scope credentials:

1. From the left menu of your app, select > Deployment center > FTPS credentials or Local Git/FTPS credentials.

   

2. Scroll down to User scope, configure the Username and Password, and then select Save.

Once you have set your deployment credentials, you can find the Git deployment username in your app's Overview page,

If Git deployment is configured, the page shows a Git/deployment username; otherwise, an FTP/deployment username.

Note

Azure does not show your user-scope deployment password. If you forget the password, you can reset your credentials by following the steps in this section.

Use user-scope credentials with FTP/FTPS

Authenticating to an FTP/FTPS endpoint using user-scope credentials requires a username in the following format: <app-name>\<user-name>

Since user-scope credentials are linked to the user and not a specific resource, the username must be in this format to direct the sign-in action to the right app endpoint.

Get application-scope credentials

Azure CLI

Get the application-scope credentials using the az webapp deployment list-publishing-profiles command. For example:

az webapp deployment list-publishing-profiles --resource-group <group-name> --name <app-name>

For local Git deployment, you can also use the az webapp deployment list-publishing-credentials command to get a Git remote URI for your app, with the application-scope credentials already embedded. For example:

az webapp deployment list-publishing-credentials --resource-group <group-name> --name <app-name> --query scmUri

Note that the returned Git remote URI doesn't contain /<app-name>.git at the end. When you add the remote URI, make sure to append /<app-name>.git to avoid an error 22 with git-http-push. Additionally, when using git remote add ... via shells that use the dollar sign for variable interpolation (such as bash), escape any dollar signs (\$) in the username or password. Failure to escape this character can result in authentication errors.

Azure PowerShell

Get the application-scope credentials using the Get-AzWebAppPublishingProfile command. For example:

Get-AzWebAppPublishingProfile -ResourceGroupName <group-name> -Name <app-name>

Azure portal

1. From the left menu of your app, select Deployment center > FTPS credentials or Local Git/FTPS credentials.

   

2. In the Application scope section, select the Copy link to copy the username or password.

Reset application-scope credentials

Azure CLI

Reset the application-scope credentials using the az resource invoke-action command:

az resource invoke-action --action newpassword --resource-group <group-name> --name <app-name> --resource-type Microsoft.Web/sites

Azure PowerShell

Reset the application-scope credentials using the Invoke-AzResourceAction command:

Invoke-AzResourceAction -ResourceGroupName <group-name> -ResourceType Microsoft.Web/sites -ResourceName <app-name> -Action newpassword

Azure portal

1. From the left menu of your app, select Deployment center > FTPS credentials or Local Git/FTPS credentials.

   

2. In the Application scope section, select Reset.

Disable basic authentication

See Disable basic authentication in App Service deployments.

Next steps

Find out how to use these credentials to deploy your app from local Git or using FTP/S.