Azure recently announced a new developer tool, the Azure Developer CLI, and after using it for the last month, I'm in love. ❤️
AZD makes it really easy to deploy applications that require multiple Azure services (which is most non-trivial applications!). Instead of running multiple commands or visiting multiple places in the Azure portal, I can run a single command and have it take care of everything. The azd commands rely on configuration files written in Bicep that describe all the resources, plus an azure.yaml file that describes what code needs to be deployed to which server. The azd tool also helps with CI/CD pipelines and app monitoring, so it's helpfulness goes beyond just the initial deployment.
The team is working on providing lots of templates that are already "azd-ified" so that you can get started quickly with whatever infrastructure stack you prefer. Since I'm on the Python team, I've been working on templates for the top Python frameworks, Django, Flask, and FastAPI.
My first finished template is for a Django app with PostgreSQL database that gets deployed to Azure App Service with a PostgreSQL flexible server. The App Service app communicates with the server inside a private VNet, to make sure the database can't be easily accessed from the outside.
Check out the sample here:
github.com/pamelafox/msdocs-django-postgresql-sample-app-azd/
The readme has instructions for local development, deployment, monitoring, and pipeline setup. If you run into any issues following the steps, let me know in the project discussions tab. The `azd` tool is still in preview, so this is a great time to get feedback about what is and isn't working.
I also put together this video showing me running azd up on the repo and setting up Django admin:
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