Azure Deployment Environments
Quickly spin up app infrastructure environments using project-based templates.
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.
Security
Built-in security and compliance
Microsoft has committed to investing $20 billion in cybersecurity over five years.
We employ more than 8,500 security and threat intelligence experts across 77 countries.
Azure has one of the largest compliance certification portfolios in the industry.
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.
RESOURCES
Azure Deployment Environments resources and documentation
Frequently asked questions
- 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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