If you need to use GitHub Actions and interact with Azure resources, you'll need to authenticate properly. Authenticating is made easy by direct Action support in a workflow, but it requires a Service Principal created in a specific way that produces output that is required to go into a GitHub Secret.
Using a sample GitHub repository, the video lesson will cover all the details you need to know to get a working GitHub workflow step to authenticate to Azure and then use the Azure CLI to perform operations.
The step in the workflow needs to include a secret from the Service Principal:
- uses: azure/login@v1
with:
creds: ${{ secrets.AZURE_CREDENTIALS }}
In this video, you'll learn how to:
1. Create a GitHub Action workflow to login to Azure
2. Create an Azure Service Principal with enough permissions
3. Add a GitHub Actions Secret from the Service Principal
4. Run the workflow that uses the Azure CLI
