Here is my CI CD pipeline to build and push the next js web app to Azure Web App Service.

Current pipeline literally takes 30 minutes to be precise for deployment. Most of the time is for deployment.

Build -> 3min. 20 sec.
Deploy -> 26min. 37 sec.

I am not able to figure out how to solve this issue of zipping and deploying the package. In prior times i have done directly to VM’s using PM2 and it was super quick. Need help to speed it up for Azure Web Apps.

name: Build and deploy Node.js app to Azure Web App - name

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - staging
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    env:
      NEXT_PUBLIC_HOST: ${{ secrets.NEXT_PUBLIC_HOST }}
      NEXT_PUBLIC_REDIRECT_URL: ${{ secrets.NEXT_PUBLIC_REDIRECT_URL }}

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Set up Node.js version
        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
          node-version: '20.x'

      - name: npm install, build, and test
        run: |
          npm install
          npm run build
      - name: Zip artifact for deployment
        run: zip -r release.zip .next/ * -x "*.git*"
            
      - name: Upload artifact for deployment job
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
        with:
          name: node-app
          path: release.zip

  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    needs: build
    environment:
      name: 'Production'
      url: ${{ steps.deploy-to-webapp.outputs.webapp-url }}

    steps:
      - name: Download artifact from build job
        uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
        with:
          name: node-app

      - name: Unzip artifact for deployment
        run: unzip release.zip

      - name: 'Deploy to Azure Web App'
        id: deploy-to-webapp
        uses: azure/webapps-deploy@v2
        with:
          app-name: 'nextstaging'
          slot-name: 'Production'
          publish-profile: ${{ secrets.AZUREAPPSERVICE_PUBLISHPROFILE_F1C1 }}
          package: .