Splitting AZD usage across a build and deployment job

[wmeints]

Hi, I'm setting up a CI/CD pipeline in Github Actions where I have a build job, a deployment job for test, and a deployment job for production. I tried setting up so that:

• I run azd package in the build job to build and push docker images of my application
• I run azd provision and azd deploy in the deployment job to provision and deploy the application

I can't seem to get it to work properly. I can succesfully package the application and push the images to the docker container registry. But in the deploy job it won't deploy the images I made earlier.

I'm looking for some pointers to get me going :-)

[vhvb1989]

Hi @wmeints

To deploy a previously packaged service, you have to use flags for both package and deploy

When running package, add the name of the service use the output flag:
azd package api --output-path ./dist/api.zip

Then, when running deploy, use the from package arg like
azd deploy api --from-package <package-path>

You can combine this with gh-actions steps to upload artifacts and download it from another gh-action stage.

Adding @wbreza