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 jus