WorkService is a production-ready ASP.NET Core Web API deployed to Azure Container Apps, backed by Azure SQL (serverless), and fully automated with Docker + GitHub Actions CI/CD.
This project demonstrates end-to-end ownership: local development, containerization, cloud deployment, database migrations, secrets management, and automated deployments.
- Platform: Azure Container Apps (Consumption)
- Ingress: External HTTPS
- Database: Azure SQL Database (Serverless)
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions (auto deploy on
main+ manual dispatch) - Status: Currently offline to avoid cloud costs
- Backend: ASP.NET Core (.NET)
- ORM: Entity Framework Core
- Database: Azure SQL Database (Serverless)
- Containerization: Docker
- Registry: Azure Container Registry (ACR)
- Hosting: Azure Container Apps
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions
- Secrets: Azure Container Apps secret references
WorkService/
├── WorkService.Api/
│ ├── Data/
│ │ └── AppDbContext.cs
│ ├── Models/
│ │ └── WorkItem.cs
│ ├── Program.cs
│ └── Dockerfile
├── .github/
│ └── workflows/
│ └── deploy-containerapp.yml
├── WorkService.sln
└── README.mdGET /health
GET /api/work-items
POST /api/work-items
PATCH /api/work-items/{id}/done
Example POST body:
{
"title": "My first work item"
}This service can be redeployed by:
- Re-enabling Azure resources (SQL + Container App)
- Updating secrets in Azure Container Apps
- Running the GitHub Actions workflow:
deploy-containerapp.yml- or pushing to
main
The pipeline builds the Docker image, pushes to ACR, and deploys automatically.