Deploying Applications to Azure with GitHub Actions

Manual deployments are slow, error-prone, and difficult to scale in modern cloud environments. Automating your deployment pipeline with GitHub Actions ensures fast, reliable, and secure updates to your Azure infrastructure. In this text-based course, you will learn how to build, test, and automatically deploy applications to Azure. You will progress from foundational DevOps concepts to writing real-world workflow files and implementing modern cloud security practices. What you'll learn: Understand the core components of GitHub Actions, including workflows, jobs, steps, and runners; Configure secure connections between GitHub and Azure using modern OpenID Connect (OIDC) passwordless authentication; Create automated continuous integration pipelines to build and test your code on every commit; Deploy web applications to Azure App Services using automated continuous delivery triggers; Manage environment secrets and variables safely to protect sensitive deployment credentials. You will start with key terminology and foundational definitions of CI/CD before moving on to step-by-step written guides. Through clear explanations and practical configuration examples, you will learn to structure workflow files and troubleshoot deployment issues. This course is designed for beginner developers, system administrators, and aspiring DevOps engineers who want to learn automation basics without needing prior cloud-deployment experience. Start reading today to streamline your cloud deployment workflow with modern automation.