Packaging and Deploying Azure WebJobs

Note: This documentation is for FAKE before version 5 (or the non-netcore version). The new documentation can be found here

FAKE can be used to zip the output directory of a project and push it to Azure via the zip controller.

You'll need to know the http authentication details of the website to publish the web jobs to. If the web job does not already exist, it will be created as part of the deploy.

In your build.fsx add the following:

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type Uri with
    member this.SubDomain = this.Host.Split([|'.'|],2).[0]

let private jobTypePath webJobType =
    match webJobType with
    | WebJobType.Continuous -> "continuous"
    | WebJobType.Triggered -> "triggered"

// a function to create webjobs based on the projects structure
let private createWebJob site name jobType project =
    let path = jobTypePath jobType
    { Name = name
      JobType = jobType
      Project = project
      DirectoryToPackage = sprintf "src/%s/bin/Release" project
      PackageLocation = sprintf "bin/%s/webjobs/%s/%s.zip" site path project }

let webJobs site = [createWebJob site "webjob1" WebJobType.Continuous "MyProject.WebJob1"
                    createWebJob site "webjob2" WebJobType.Triggered "MyProject.WebJob2"]

let site = Uri("https://yoursite.scm.azurewebsites.net")
let webSite = {WebSite.Url = site
               UserName = "$yoursite"
               Password = "password"
               WebJobs = webJobs site.SubDomain }

Target "PackageWebJobs" (fun _ ->
    PackageWebJobs [webSite]
)
Target "DeployWebJobs" (fun _ ->
    DeployWebJobs [webSite]
)

In the dependencies section add the targets to the build order after the build action:

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"Clean"
  ==> "BuildApp"
  ==> "BuildTest"
  ==> "Test"
  ==> "PackageWebJobs"
  ==> "DeployWebJobs"
  ==> "Default"

The will create a zip file in the bin folder in the root which contains the contents of the bin/release folder of each web job to deploy and push it to azure.

Caveats

The zip controller will not remove files.

val private jobTypePath : webJobType:'a -> 'b
val webJobType : 'a
val private createWebJob : site:'a -> name:'b -> jobType:'c -> project:'d -> 'e
val site : 'a
val name : 'a
val jobType : 'a
val project : 'a
val path : obj
val sprintf : format:Printf.StringFormat<'T> -> 'T
val webJobs : site:'a -> 'b list
val site : obj
val webSite : obj