Azure Deployment Environments

OVERVIEW

Accelerate the development lifecycle with on-demand, preconfigured environments

Deploy the right environment at the right time without worrying about backend processes. Provision complex environments in minutes without waiting for your platform engineering team by choosing from a curated set of templates built specifically for your projects. Create self-service environments directly from where you work—including the code repository, the CLI, or a custom dev portal—while automatically applying the right identities, permissions, and Azure subscriptions.
Enable platform engineering teams to configure security policies and permissions based on the stage of development. Increase protections for pre-production and production environments while supporting experimentation in dev/test and sandbox environments. Easily track resource usage across teams by automatically deploying resources in the right Azure subscription, and avoid unnecessary costs by setting environments to auto-expire when they are no longer needed.
Streamline cross-team workflows by creating infrastructure-as-code templates in the framework of your choice with Azure Deployment Environments’ extensibility model, and standardize environments while empowering devs to iterate and share best practices. Automatically deploy environments as part of an existing continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline or deploy on demand to test applications and sandbox environments to work on proof of concepts.

FEATURES

Accelerate development lifecycle with Azure Deployment Environments

Easy deployment

Deploy on demand from the dev portal, the CLI, or continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.

Standardized templates

Help teams drive InnerSource best practices, tips, and tricks while eliminating overhead.

Self-service

Maintain centralized governance with environment types set up by admins for a self-service dev experience.

Comprehensive tracking

Track and control costs and centrally manage Azure resources across dev centers.

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PRICING

Use Azure Deployment Environments and pay only for Azure resources

Pay only for the Azure resources you create in your environments, such as compute, storage, and networking. Visual Studio subscribers can save up to 50 percent using Azure dev/test pricing with Azure Deployment Environments to support ongoing development and test needs.

Azure Deployment Environments is a free service today. However, you will be charged for other Azure resources like compute, storage, and networking that are created in environments deployed through the service.

Enterprise might qualify for additional limits. View the Azure Deployment Environments limits. To request raising the limit, please contact support at ADE Support.

Learn more about pricing for compute, storage, networking, and other Azure resources on the Azure pricing calculator.

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RESOURCES

Azure Deployment Environments resources and documentation

Quickstart

Create and configure a dev center

In this quickstart, learn how to enable self-service deployment environments for development teams.

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Quickstart

Create and configure projects

Learn how to create a project that represents a team or business function with its own settings for the dev center.

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Quickstart

Create environments

This quickstart shows you how to use the developer portal to create and access an environment in Azure Deployment Environments.

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Environments and the associated Azure resources are created in customer subscriptions, as preconfigured for the specific project or team.
Thanks to Azure Deployment Environment's extensibility model (now in public preview), customers can leverage their preferred IaC framework to deploy through the service. This includes Azure Resource Manager, Bicep, and popular IaC frameworks such as Terraform, Pulumi, and more.
Yes, it helps with cost visibility and control. Azure deployment environments can be tracked and governed with security alerts and visibility to costs incurred, and admins can set them to auto-delete to avoid unnecessary spending.

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