Deploying Strapi to Azure

Question

I want to deploy Strapi to my Azure. Anyone here who has an experience doing such and making it up and running completely? Somehow I couldn't find any detailed instructions how to do that in Azure.. I'm looking for something that is as easy as deploying it to Heroku - but it's fine though if it'll require more steps as long as I can make it to work completely.

Answer 1

This is the complete instruction I have also created in the README of the repository.

Strapi-Azure 3.1.3

This is a working repository of Strapi 3.1.3 which you can already deploy as an Azure Web App. This requres a paid subscription, minimum of B1 plan (32 USD estimated), so we can enable the 64-bit platform configuration and the Always On feature.

To get started, let us first create and configure our Azure Web App:

Create an instance:

• Name: The name of your choice that is still available

• Publish: Code

• Runtime staci: Node 12 LTS

• Operating System: Windows

• Region: select near you

• Sku and Size: select B1 (minimum)

Configure the Environment variables:

• Add the following key-value pairs:

• For the HOST make a ping to your .azurewebsites.net instance and get the IP

Configure the Platform Settings

• In the General Settings tab (beside the Application Settings), change the Platform from 32 Bit to 64 Bit

• To confirm if you are indeed now on 64 Bit mode, go to Console and run node -p "process.arch"

Install yarn: Go again to Console and run: npm install -g yarn

Deploy from your github account a copy of strapi-azure repo

• In the Deployment Center tab, connect your GitHub account and browse your copy of strapi-azure

• Select App Service build service as your build provider

• Select repository and branch

• Deploy!

Build your Admin UI using Kudu service

• Go to Advance Tools -> Go -> expand Debug console from the toolbar -> CMD
• Inside the wwwroot directory (site/wwwroot/), execute yarn build

See it in action 😊