Implemented CI/CD pipeline for automatic deployments to Azure on repo push

Author: hvalfangst

.github/workflows/deploy.yml

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+name: CI/CD
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+env:
+  AZURE_FUNCTIONAPP_PACKAGE_PATH: '.'
+  PYTHON_VERSION: '3.10'
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Setup Python version
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ env.PYTHON_VERSION }}
+
+      - name: Create and start virtual environment
+        run: |
+          python -m venv venv
+          source venv/bin/activate
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: pip install -r requirements.txt
+
+      - name: Zip artifact for deployment
+        run: zip -r release.zip host.json requirements.txt function_app.py
+
+      - name: Upload artifact for deployment job
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: python-app
+          path: |
+            release.zip
+            !venv/
+
+  deploy:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    needs: build
+    environment:
+      name: 'Production'
+      url: ${{ steps.deploy-to-function.outputs.webapp-url }}
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Download artifact from build job
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: python-app
+
+      - name: Unzip artifact for deployment
+        run: unzip release.zip
+
+      - name: 'Deploy to Azure Functions'
+        uses: Azure/functions-action@v1
+        id: deploy-to-function
+        with:
+          app-name: 'hvalfangstlinuxfunctionapp'
+          slot-name: 'Production'
+          package: ${{ env.AZURE_FUNCTIONAPP_PACKAGE_PATH }}
+          scm-do-build-during-deployment: true
+          enable-oryx-build: true
+          publish-profile: ${{ secrets.PUBLISH_PROFILE }}