SSHing your way into AppService

Sharesquare engineering bits - Nov 15 '23 - - Dev Community

When we started to migrate our core platform from a single virtual machine on DigitalOcean to a managed webapp solution on Azure, AppService, the first question was: can we recycle our CI/CD flows?

The answer was: yes! Together with fellow cloud engineer @ayoayomide , let us tell you how we did it! See the full story here.

Spoiler alert. We could keep our SSH-based deployment pipeline, written in Deployer, yet we had to enable and patch a rather hidden SSH feature in the Azure AppService itself.

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