Build a custom image and distribute them to Azure VMSS using GitHub Actions

With the following Github Actions workflow example you build customized images with your app and distribute them using image managing Azure services like Shared Image Gallery After you can use these images for creating Virtual Machines or Virtual Machine Scale Sets 😎

name: Build App Node Image (Azure)

on:
  release:
    types:
      - created

jobs:
  BUILD-APP-NODE-IMAGE:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest    
    steps:
    - name: CHECKOUT
      uses: actions/[email protected]

    - name: WORKFLOW ARTIFACTS
      run:| 
        cd  "$GITHUB_WORKSPACE"
        mkdir workflow-artifacts/
        cp -r dist workflow-artifacts/dist
        cp install.sh workflow-artifacts/install.sh
      
    - name: AZURE LOGIN 
      uses: azure/[email protected]
      with:
        creds: ${{secrets.AZURE_CREDENTIALS}}

    - name: BUILD VM IMAGE      
      uses: azure/[email protected]
      with:        
        resource-group-name: 'MyApp'
        managed-identity: 'myapp-imagebuilder'
        location: 'westeurope'
        vm-size: 'Standard_D4s_v3'
        source-os-type: 'linux'        
        source-image: Canonical:0001-com-ubuntu-server-focal:20_04-lts:latest
        customizer-source: ${{ GITHUB.WORKSPACE }}/workflow-artifacts
        customizer-script:| 
          sudo mkdir -p /var/www/myapp
          sudo cp -r /tmp/workflow-artifacts/* /var/www/myapp/
          cd /var/www/myapp/
          sudo ./install.sh
        dist-type: 'SharedImageGallery'
        dist-resource-id: '/subscriptions/xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx/resourceGroups/MyApp/providers/Microsoft.Compute/galleries/MyAppImageGallery/images/myapp-node'
        dist-location: 'westeurope'

For more info check this repository: