Connect to Azure and Artifact Repo for Your Web App Deployments

Updated 3 weeks ago by Michael Cretzman

Currently, this feature is in Beta and behind a Feature Flag. Contact Harness Support to enable the feature. Feature Flags can only be removed for Harness Professional and Essentials editions. Once the feature is released to a general audience, it's available for Trial and Community Editions.

You connect Harness to your Azure account to deploy Azure Web Apps. You make the connection using a Harness Cloud Provider.

You deploy your Web App using a Docker image. You connect to your image's repo using a Harness Artifact Server. If your Docker image is stored in Azure Container Registry, then you can use this Azure Cloud Provider you set up and skip the next step.

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Before You Begin

Supported Platforms and Technologies

See  Supported Platforms and Technologies.

Review: Azure Connection Options

As covered in Harness Key Concepts, you need to install a Harness Delegate in your infrastructure before setting up your Harness deployment.

There are several types of Delegates you can use for an Azure App Service deployment, described in Delegate Installation Overview.

Shell Script, Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm Delegates are all options.

Step 1: Install a Harness Delegate

Follow the installation steps for the Harness Delegate you want to install. See Delegate Installation Overview for the available options.

Make sure this Delegate is in, or can connect to, the resource group for your Azure Web App.

Step 2: Set Up the Azure Cloud Provider

A Harness Azure Cloud Provider connects to your Azure subscription using your Client ID and Tenant ID.

Follow the steps in Add Microsoft Azure Cloud Provider to connect Harness to Azure.

That's all the setup you need to connect Harness to your account and start your deployment.

If you store the Docker image in Azure Container Registry, then you can use this Azure Cloud Provider you set up and skip the next step.

Step 3: Set Up the Harness Artifact Server

If you store the Docker image in Azure Container Registry, then you can use the Azure Cloud Provider you set up and skip the Artifact Server setup.

A Harness Azure Web App deployment uses a Docker image. You connect Harness to the same Docker repo you use in your Web App in Azure. You made this connection using a Harness Artifact Server.

The Harness Azure Web Application Service type supports the following repos:

For example, here are the Docker Hub settings in an Azure Web App:

Container Settings is deprecated and will be removed in March of 2021. The Deployment Center replaces it. Both options are below.

Container Settings

Deployment Center

Here's the Harness Docker Registry Artifact Server:

The above example uses a public repo, and it requires no username or password.

Later, in the Harness Service, you'll add an Artifact Source that uses this Artifact Server and points to the Docker Image Name:

The above example uses a publicly available Docker image from Harness. You might want to use that the first time you set up an Azure Web App deployment.

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