Git deployments are very useful as they allow for a developer to deploy a web app from a code commit, and it is a nice way of developing as opposed to copying files via FTP.
As with everything on Azure – it is very easy to do.
An empty web app has been crated (New -> Web App).
To enable git deployments, navigate to the properties of the newly created web app, and click on “Deployment Options”.
Click on “Choose Source” . From this, you can select a number of different deployment options, such as linking the web app to a TFS repository, a BitBucket account, or even One Drive. We are going to deploy to a local git repository.
To do this, select “Local git Repository” from the menu and click OK.
Once completed, under the properties section of the web app, click on “Properties”. Navigate to the “GIT URL”, and copy it.
Next step is to open a git command line and run git clone with the newly created git URL.
To illustrate the process, a simple index.html file is created and dropped into the new folder. This code is then added to the repository.
Once this deployment has finished, if we refresh the page, our changes are already present.
