A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about deploying multiple applications to Azure virtual directories from a single Git repository to Azure. That method works well. However, it by default only supports building and deploying a single .NET project. This was fine in my previously example in which only one of the deployment projects I had was .NET based. Using a custom KUDU script, it’s possible to deploy multiple .NET applications to the virtual directories from a single git repository.
Using the Azure CLI, you can create a default KUDU script. Install Azure CLI with NPM, and then run it get a script for an arbitrary project/solution.
npm install azure-cli -g azure config mode asm azure site deploymentscript --aspWAP solutionFolder/ProjectFolder/Project.csproj -s solutionFolder/Solution.sln
For a Windows system, this will output a Windows batch file called “deploy.cmd.” As I detailed in my other post, this deploy.cmd can be used in conjunction with submerge folders to pull multiple projects into a single git repository.
The script, though, only will build and deploy a single project. However, it’s a Windows batch file, so we can modify it to deploy multiple projects to our virtual directories. What I did with the default script was modify it to have iterate over an array of projects/solutions and deploy them. This iterating simply calls the default deployment bits with specific variables from the iterated parameters.
Here’s my custom script. You can see that I specify (2) projects/solutions and these two projects get deployed appropriately. To achieve this, I put the default deployment functionality into a Windows batch function and call it during the looping over the project names.
@if "%SCM_TRACE_LEVEL%" NEQ "4" @echo off :: ---------------------- :: KUDU Deployment Script :: Version: 1.0.9 :: ---------------------- :: Prerequisites :: ------------- :: Verify node.js installed where node 2>nul >nul IF %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 ( echo Missing node.js executable, please install node.js, if already installed make sure it can be reached from current environment. goto error ) :: Setup :: ----- setlocal enabledelayedexpansion SET ARTIFACTS=%~dp0%..\artifacts IF NOT DEFINED DEPLOYMENT_SOURCE ( SET DEPLOYMENT_SOURCE=%~dp0%. ) IF NOT DEFINED DEPLOYMENT_TARGET ( SET DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=%ARTIFACTS%\wwwroot ) IF NOT DEFINED NEXT_MANIFEST_PATH ( SET NEXT_MANIFEST_PATH=%ARTIFACTS%\manifest IF NOT DEFINED PREVIOUS_MANIFEST_PATH ( SET PREVIOUS_MANIFEST_PATH=%ARTIFACTS%\manifest ) ) IF NOT DEFINED KUDU_SYNC_CMD ( :: Install kudu sync echo Installing Kudu Sync call npm install kudusync -g --silent IF !ERRORLEVEL! NEQ 0 goto error :: Locally just running "kuduSync" would also work SET KUDU_SYNC_CMD=%appdata%\npm\kuduSync.cmd ) IF NOT DEFINED DEPLOYMENT_TEMP ( SET DEPLOYMENT_TEMP=%temp%\___deployTemp%random% SET CLEAN_LOCAL_DEPLOYMENT_TEMP=true ) IF DEFINED CLEAN_LOCAL_DEPLOYMENT_TEMP ( IF EXIST "%DEPLOYMENT_TEMP%" rd /s /q "%DEPLOYMENT_TEMP%" mkdir "%DEPLOYMENT_TEMP%" ) IF DEFINED MSBUILD_PATH goto MsbuildPathDefined SET MSBUILD_PATH=%ProgramFiles(x86)%\MSBuild\14.0\Bin\MSBuild.exe :MsbuildPathDefined SET "projects[0]=dir1\Project1\Project1.csproj" SET "solutions[0]=dir1\Solution1.sln" SET "solutiondirs[0]=dir1" SET "projects[1]=dir2\Project2\Project2.csproj" SET "solutions[1]=dir2\Solution2.sln" SET "solutiondirs[1]=dir2" SET len=0 :SymLoop if defined projects[%len%] ( SET /a "len+=1" GOTO :SymLoop ) echo "The length of the array is" %len% SET /a "len-=1" FOR /L %%A IN (0,1,%len%) DO ( echo !projects[%%A]! !solutions[%%A]! !solutiondirs[%%A]! call :deploy !projects[%%A]! !solutions[%%A]! !solutiondirs[%%A]! ) :deploy :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :: Deployment :: ---------- SHIFT IF (%0)==() GOTO error SET "PROJECT_PATH=%~0" SET "SOLUTION_PATH=%~1" SET "SOLUTION_DIR=%~2" echo Handling .NET Web Application deployment. :: 1. Restore NuGet packages IF /I "%SOLUTION_PATH%" NEQ "" ( call :ExecuteCmd nuget restore "%DEPLOYMENT_SOURCE%\%SOLUTION_PATH%" IF !ERRORLEVEL! NEQ 0 goto error ) :: 2. Build to the temporary path IF /I "%IN_PLACE_DEPLOYMENT%" NEQ "1" ( call :ExecuteCmd "%MSBUILD_PATH%" "%DEPLOYMENT_SOURCE%\%PROJECT_PATH%" /nologo /verbosity:m /t:Build /t:pipelinePreDeployCopyAllFilesToOneFolder /p:_PackageTempDir="%DEPLOYMENT_TEMP%";AutoParameterizationWebConfigConnectionStrings=false;Configuration=Release;UseSharedCompilation=false /p:SolutionDir="%DEPLOYMENT_SOURCE%\%SOLUTION_DIR%\\" %SCM_BUILD_ARGS% ) ELSE ( call :ExecuteCmd "%MSBUILD_PATH%" "%DEPLOYMENT_SOURCE%\%PROJECT_PATH%" /nologo /verbosity:m /t:Build /p:AutoParameterizationWebConfigConnectionStrings=false;Configuration=Release;UseSharedCompilation=false /p:SolutionDir="%DEPLOYMENT_SOURCE%\%SOLUTION_DIR%\\" %SCM_BUILD_ARGS% ) IF !ERRORLEVEL! NEQ 0 goto error :: 3. KuduSync IF /I "%IN_PLACE_DEPLOYMENT%" NEQ "1" ( call :ExecuteCmd "%KUDU_SYNC_CMD%" -v 50 -f "%DEPLOYMENT_TEMP%" -t "%DEPLOYMENT_TARGET%\%SOLUTION_DIR%" -n "%NEXT_MANIFEST_PATH%" -p "%PREVIOUS_MANIFEST_PATH%" -i ".git;.hg;.deployment;deploy.cmd" IF !ERRORLEVEL! NEQ 0 goto error ) EXIT /B :: Execute command routine that will echo out when error :ExecuteCmd setlocal set _CMD_=%* call %_CMD_% if "%ERRORLEVEL%" NEQ "0" echo Failed exitCode=%ERRORLEVEL%, command=%_CMD_% exit /b %ERRORLEVEL% :error endlocal echo An error has occurred during web site deployment. call :exitSetErrorLevel call :exitFromFunction 2>nul :exitSetErrorLevel exit /b 1 :exitFromFunction () :end endlocal echo Finished successfully.