Azure Deployment Environments

Accelerate the development lifecycle with on-demand, preconfigured environments

Azure Deployment Environments provides devs with self-service, project-based templates to deploy environments for any stage of development. Support collaboration and innovation with consistent environments and best practices, and encourage experimentation and InnerSource use while maximizing security, compliance, and cost efficiency.

Easy, on-demand deployment from the dev portal, the CLI, or continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines

Standardized templates to help teams drive InnerSource best practices, tips, and tricks while eliminating overhead

Environment types set up by admins for a self-service dev experience while maintaining centralized governance

Comprehensive management capabilities to track and control costs and centrally manage Azure resources across dev centers

Enable a frictionless developer experience

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. Spin up 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.

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Maximize security with centralized control

Enable platform engineering teams to configure security policies and permissions based on the stage of development. Ramp up 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.

Innovate and collaborate with standardized templates

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.