Create a web app and deploy code from a local Git repository

This sample script creates a web app in App Service with its related resources, and then deploys your web app code from a local Git repository.

If needed, update to the latest Azure PowerShell using the instruction found in the Azure PowerShell guide, and then run Connect-AzAccount -Environment AzureChinaCloud to create a connection with Azure. Also, your application code needs to be committed into a local Git repository.

Sample script

$gitdirectory="<Replace with path to local Git repo>"
$webappname="mywebapp$(Get-Random)"

cd $gitdirectory

# Create a web app and set up Git deployement.
New-AzWebApp -Name $webappname

# Configure GitHub deployment from your GitHub repo and deploy once.
$PropertiesObject = @{
    scmType = "LocalGit";
}
Set-AzResource -Properties $PropertiesObject -ResourceGroupName $webappname `
-ResourceType Microsoft.Web/sites/config -ResourceName $webappname/web `
-ApiVersion 2015-08-01 -Force

# Get publishing profile for the web app
$xml = [xml](Get-AzWebAppPublishingProfile -Name $webappname `
-ResourceGroupName $webappname `
-OutputFile null)

# Extract connection information from publishing profile
$username = $xml.SelectNodes("//publishProfile[@publishMethod=`"MSDeploy`"]/@userName").value
$password = $xml.SelectNodes("//publishProfile[@publishMethod=`"MSDeploy`"]/@userPWD").value

# Set git remote
git remote add azure https://${username}:$password@$webappname.scm.chinacloudsites.cn:443/$webappname.git

# Push your code to the new Azure remote
git push azure master

Clean up deployment

After the script sample has been run, the following command can be used to remove the resource group, web app, and all related resources.

Remove-AzResourceGroup -Name $webappname -Force

Script explanation

This script uses the following commands. Each command in the table links to command specific documentation.

Next steps

For more information on the Azure PowerShell module, see Azure PowerShell documentation.

Additional Azure PowerShell samples for Azure App Service Web Apps can be found in the Azure PowerShell samples.