WAWSDeploy
Simple command line tool to deploy a folder or a zip file to an Azure Website using WebDeploy. See this post for details.
Note: the .PublishSettings file discussed here is the one you can download for a specific Azure Web App via the portal.
Sample use:
WAWSDeploy c:\somefolder mysite.PublishSettings
WAWSDeploy c:\somefile.zip mysite.PublishSettings
With optional password argument
WAWSDeploy c:\somefolder mysite.PublishSettings /p mypubsettingspassword
WAWSDeploy c:\somefolder mysite.PublishSettings /password mypubsettingspassword
Allowing untrusted cert
WAWSDeploy c:\somefolder mysite.PublishSettings /au
Delete files on the remote host
WAWSDeploy c:\somefolder mysite.PublishSettings /d
Use checksums instead of timestamps
WAWSDeploy c:\somefolder mysite.PublishSettings /c
Verbose Logging
WAWSDeploy c:\somefolder mysite.PublishSettings /v
WAWSDeploy c:\somefolder mysite.PublishSettings /w
Target Path - The virtual directory to deploy to
WAWSDeploy C:\somefolder mysite.PublisSettings /t someVirtualDirectoryName
Target Path - Using a physical target folder
WAWSDeploy C:\somefolder mysite.PublisSettings /t d:\home\site\blah
To build this project
npm install -g grunt-cli
npm install
grunt
History
5/25/2016: v1.7
Add /TargetPath switch
1/9/2015: v1.6
Add /TargetPath switch
11/12/2014: v1.5
Add -t switch to allow targeted deployment to a specific virtual directory.
5/1/2014: v1.4
Add -WhatIf and -deleteexistingfiles switches
3/26/2014: v1.3
Add support for untrusted certs.
3/6/2014: v1.2
Support optionally passing password
3/5/2014: v1.1
Support publishing from zip files
3/5/2014: v1.0
Original version