How to Automate Azure WebApp setup using Ansible & Azure DevOps pipeline | Ansible Azure Automation

Опубликовано: 10 Июль 2026
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Learn how to automate the setup of Azure App Service using Ansible playbooks and Azure DevOps pipelines, step by step.

Topics Covered in the video:
1. Setting up Azure Service Principal for automation
2. Creating Ansible playbooks for Resource Groups and App Service
3. Configuring the Azure DevOps pipeline to execute playbooks
4. Installing necessary Ansible modules and executing the pipeline
5. Cleanup of Azure resources after deployment

Pre-requisites:
Azure account subscription, click here if you don't have one.
Azure CLI needs to be installed.
Service principal to create any resources in Azure cloud
Microsoft organization
Login to Azure
az login
Enter Microsoft credentials
Create Azure Service Principal
az ad sp create-for-rbac --name ansible-azure-sp --role Contributor --scopes /subscriptions/subscription_id

Save the above output in a file, as you will not be able to retrieve it later.
Create an Ansible playbook - create-linux-app-svc.yml

Create Azure YAML build pipeline:
Add below four pipeline variables below with the value received from service principal creation.
Add tasks in the pipeline
Execute the pipeline
Clean up task

Source Blog links
https://www.coachdevops.com/2024/04/a...

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