How To Create A Web App With Deployment From GitHub Using Azure PowerShell

In this article, we are going to see the steps required to create a Web App with deployment from GitHub using Azure PowerShell. You can create, deploy and test web apps using Azure PowerShell. Azure PowerShell contains sets of modules that provide multiple cmdlets to manage Azure with Windows PowerShell.

Prerequisite

Before you begin to utilize PowerShell to oversee the Azure PowerShell, ensure that the Azure PowerShell has been installed. If not installed, here is an article on How to install the Azure PowerShell module. You need to do this only once for each computer from which you are running Azure PowerShell commands.

Connecting to Azure Portal

Connect to Azure Portal using Connect-AzureRmAccount cmdlet.

Connect-AzureRmAccount

Create an Azure Resource Group so that we can deploy, update, and test web apps in a group. Azure Resource Group is a new approach to group a collection of resources that share a unified life cycle. The benefit of using resource groups in Azure is that we can group all resources that belong to one application.

You can create Resource Groups in Azure using New-AzureRmResourceGroup cmdlets. The required parameters are,

Create an App Service plan using New-AzureRmAppServicePlan cmdlets for the resource group. The required parameters are,

Create a web app using New-AzureRmWebApp cmdlets. The required parameters are,