powershell - Azure Websites Kudu REST API - Authentication

Question

I'm trying to use PowerShell to put an updated content file onto an Azure Website via the REST API. However, when supplying my credentials into Invoke-RestMethod -Credentials I am returned the HTML of the standard Azure login page.

How can I authenticate with Kudu from PowerShell? Thanks.

Answer 1

You can first get the website via Powershell and then use the publish credentials from the website to call the Kudu REST API. The example below will get the Kudu version.

$website = Get-AzureWebsite -Name "WebsiteName"

$username = $website.PublishingUsername
$password = $website.PublishingPassword
$base64AuthInfo = [Convert]::ToBase64String([Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes(("{0}:{1}" -f $username,$password)))

$apiBaseUrl = "https://$($website.Name).scm.azurewebsites.net/api"

$kuduVersion = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri "$apiBaseUrl/environment" -Headers @{Authorization=("Basic {0}" -f $base64AuthInfo)} -Method GET