Deploying to Azure blob storage

Azure blob storage provider copies all or selected artifacts to Windows Azure storage.

Provider settings

• Storage account name (storage_account_name) - Azure storage account name.
• Storage access key (storage_access_key) - storage account access key.
• Container name (container) - the name of storage container to copy to. Container name length must be between 3 and 63 symbols.
• Folder (folder) - name of folder to copy to.
• Artifact (artifact) - name of artifact to copy.
• Unpack zip artifacts and upload their contents as individual blobs (unzip) - set true to unpack Zip artifacts before uploading to storage. Default is false.
• Remove all bucket/folder files before deployment (remove_files) - Optional. Default is false.
• Set blobs Content-Type header based on file extensions (set_content_type) - set true to automatically configure content types based on file extensions, which default to application/octet-stream otherwise. Default is false.
• gzip blobs on upload and set Content-Encoding header (gzip_files) - compress blobs satisfying file mask(s) on upload using gzip algorithm and set Content-Encoding: gzip header. File mask examples:
  • **/*.js - gzip .js files in all directories recursively;
  • js/*.js - gzip .js files in js directory only;
  • **/*.js, **/*.html - gzip .js and .html files in all directories recursively.
• Custom blob headers (headers) - Optional. Allows to attach custom headers to blobs satisfying file mask(s). See custom headers specification below.

Custom headers specification

Custom headers field has the following format:

glob_1
  Header-Name: header value
  ...
glob_2
  Header-Name: header value
...

For example:

**/*.js
  Cache-Control: max-age=3600
**/*.zip
  Content-Disposition: attachment

and the same in appveyor.yml:

deploy:
  provider: S3
  ...
  headers: |
    **/*.js
      Cache-Control: max-age=3600
    **/*.zip
      Content-Disposition: attachment

appveyor.yml configuration

Example 1 - uploading all build artifacts “as is” to remote {project-slug}\{build-version} directory:

deploy:
  provider: AzureBlob
  storage_account_name: mystorage
  storage_access_key:
    secure: ZZbm8KKD1lLCi9btF1fDkQ==
  container: builds
  folder: $(APPVEYOR_PROJECT_SLUG)\$(APPVEYOR_BUILD_VERSION)

Example 2 - deploy static site by expanding zip artifact with deployment name MyApp to the root of $web container:

deploy:
  provider: AzureBlob
  storage_account_name: mystorage
  storage_access_key:
    secure: ZZbm8KKD1lLCi9btF1fDkQ==
  container: $web
  unzip: true
  remove_files: true
  set_content_type: true
  gzip_files: '**/*.js, **/*.html'
  headers: |
    **/*.js
      Cache-Control: max-age=3600
    **/*.zip
      Content-Disposition: attachment