Releasing the container application to AKS

Now, it is time to release our application to the production environment in AKS.

Getting ready…

Open the file .github/workflows/publish.yml.

How to do it…

1. Add two more environment variables to the top of the workflow:

   env:
     REGISTRY: 'ghcr.io'
     IMAGE_NAME: '${{ github.repository }}'
     APP_NAME: 'release-recipe-app'
     SERVICE_NAME: 'release-recipe-service'

   Add an output to the job build-and-push-image from the previous recipe so that the new job will be able to access the image name:

   outputs:
     image_tag: ${{ fromJSON(steps.meta.outputs.json).tags[0] }}

2. Add a second job called production to the workflow, which only runs on pushes to main and is associated with the production environment. Set the URL of the environment to the output of a step we’ll add later. The job will need the permissions id-token: write and content...