Deploy console webjob app to azure App service containing a webapi using azure devops pipelines

Question

I have 2 webAPI’s written in .net core 2.2.The 2 web api’s are triggered by web jobs which are console Apps in .netcore 2.2. They are all different projects and in different repositories in Azure DevOps.

I am trying to deploy the web Api's together with the webjob into 2 web app services(eg: WebApi1 + Web job1 into App service1 and WebApi2 + Web job2 into App service2) in Azure using the Azure DevOps build and release pipelines.

I am able to add the webjobs manually into App Service from Azure portal and it works fine.But I want to deploy it using Azure DevOps pipelines.

I tried different ways to publish the web jobs(console apps) with the web api in the app service, like trying to publish it to App_Data folder from Azure DevOps.

I mainly followed the blog below.

https://www.andrewhoefling.com/Blog/Post/deploying-dotnet-core-webjobs-to-azure-using-azure-pipelines

But when I try to publish the webjob it overwrites the web api code(all the 4 projects have seperate build/release pipelines). The webjob code gets deployed in the site/wwwroot folder rather than the site/job folder.

My Build steps:

My Release steps:

I am not sure what I am doing wrong. Is there a way to copy the webjobs files into the same app service without overwritting the actual webapi code?

Answer 1

I asked this question a while on github repo azure-webjobs-sdk but the answer didn't help me as well...

i tried the following and it worked out for me:

1. In Azure Portal navigate to: App Service > Configuration > Path mappings > Virtual applications and directories

2. In DevOps configure your build pipeline like:

3. configure your release pipeline like:

configure the task: