Extract Zip Artifact as part of Azure App Service Deploy?

Question

I'm in the process of setting up a build and release of an asp.net core web app on vsts.

I've the build working with the following tasks:

• Build solution
• dotnet publish
• create artifact of type zip to $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)/MyApp_$(Build.BuildId).zip
• publish -- artifact path $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)/MyApp_$(Build.BuildId).zip -- artifact name MyApp_Package

This all works fine...

The release is an "Azure App Service Deploy" task. The "package or folder" is $(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)/MyBuild/MyApp_Package It is "working" sortof in that it is deploying the zip file to the Azure web app but does not extract the files.

How do I get it to extract the zip on the azure web site?

Answer 1

I had the same problem. However the "Publish using Web Deploy" option has been checked all the time. I also tried the version 2 and 3 of the task.

My solution was to add unzip .zip and rm

Answer 2

Since you are deploying a package (zip), you need to check Publish using Web Deploy option and specify the zip file for Package or folder.