Deploying to Azure: CI/CD with GitHub Actions

Azure Functions for .NET Developers: Series Part 1: Why Azure Functions? Serverless for .NET Developers Part 2: Your First Azure Function: HTTP Triggers Step-by-Step Part 3: Beyond HTTP: Timer, Queue, and Blob Triggers Part 4: Local Development Setup: Tools, Debugging, and Hot Reload Part 5: Understanding the Isolated Worker Model Part 6: Configuration Done Right: Settings, Secrets, and Key Vault Part 7: Testing Azure Functions: Unit, Integration, and Local Part 8: Deploying to Azure: CI/CD with GitHub Actions <- you are here Introduction: from local to production Local tooling hides four things you have to own in production: packaging, authentication, configuration injection, and rollback. func start handles all of them silently; a CI/CD pipeline does not, and the decisions you make about each one compound quickly. The gap is easy to miss. Your local environment reads from local.settings.json, authenticates with your personal identity, and recovers from bad deploys by letting you j