I want to deploy or copy the artifacts to a subfolder inside the wwwroot of azure app service - azure-devops

Question

I'm using azure AzureWebApp#1 to publish the contents of my front end app, however it has to be deployed to a folder inside the wwwroot of the app service. I tried using the customDeployFolder but it is not working. Is there a way I can achieve this using yaml? Thanks

Answer 1

Thanks # levi-lu-msft , Your answer helped lot.
You can use the KUDU API to deploy the azure app service outside the wwwroot with the artifacts. You need to add an azure PowerShell task in your release pipeline and run kudu api. Below scripts is for example.
1, scripts to create a directory CustomDomain
$WebApp = Get-AzWebApp -Name '<appname>' -ResourceGroupName '<resourcegroupname>'
[xml]$publishingProfile = Get-AzWebAppPublishingProfile -WebApp $WebApp
# Create Base64 authorization header
$username = $publishingProfile.publishData.publishProfile[0].userName
$password = $publishingProfile.publishData.publishProfile[0].userPWD
$base64AuthInfo = [Convert]::ToBase64String([Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes(("{0}:{1}" -f $username,$password)))
$bodyToPOST = #{
command = "md CustomDomain"
dir = "D:\home\site"
}
# Splat all parameters together in $param
$param = #{
# command REST API url
Uri = "https://<appname>.scm.azurewebsites.net/api/command"
Headers = #{Authorization=("Basic {0}" -f $base64AuthInfo)}
UserAgent = "powershell/1.0"
Method = "POST"
Body = (ConvertTo-Json $bodyToPOST)
ContentType = "application/json"
}
# Invoke REST call
Invoke-RestMethod #param
Above scripts will first get the username and password from your app's publishprofile which will be used later as anthentication in calling kudu api. And the api will run your self-defined command to make directory CustomDomain in "d:\home\site"
2, Deploy your app using kudu api.
When the CustomDomain directory is created, you can invoke kudu api to deploy your app to CustomDomain directory. Please refer to below example.
$param = #{
# zipdeploy api url
Uri = "https://<appname>.scm.azurewebsites.net/api/zip/site/CustomDomain"
Headers = #{Authorization=("Basic {0}" -f $base64AuthInfo)}
UserAgent = "powershell/1.0"
Method = "PUT"
# Deployment Artifact Path
InFile = "$(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)\<artifacts_alias>\drop\<artifacts_name>.zip"
ContentType = "multipart/form-data"
}
# Invoke REST call
Invoke-RestMethod #param
The value InFile should point to location of the artifact file which is downloaded by your release pipeline. Usually it is located in "$(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)\<artifacts_alias>\drop\<artifacts_name>.zip"
Refer here for more info