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Quickstart: Create and access an environment in Azure Deployment Environments

This quickstart describes how to create and access an environment in Azure Deployment Environments by using the developer portal.

As a developer, you can create environments associated with a project in Deployment Environments. An environment provides preconfigured Azure resources for deploying your application.

Prerequisites

  • Someone in your organization must configure Deployment Environments with a dev center and at least one project before you can create a deployment environment. To meet this prerequisite, platform engineers can complete the steps in Quickstart: Configure Azure Deployment Environments.
  • You must have permissions as a Deployment Environments User for a project. If you don't have permissions for a project, contact your administrator.

Create an environment

An environment in Deployment Environments is a collection of Azure resources on which your application is deployed. You can create an environment from the developer portal.

Note

Only users who have the Deployment Environments User role, the DevCenter Project Admin role, or a built-in role that has appropriate permissions can create an environment. Users who have the Deployment Environments Reader role can view their own environments and environments created by others.

  1. Go to the developer portal. The landing page contains useful information and links. When you're ready, select Sign in.

    Screenshot of the developer portal landing page. Sign in is highlighted.

  1. If you don't have any dev boxes, you see this screen. Select New environment.

    Screenshot of the developer portal. New environment is highlighted.

  1. In the Add an environment pane, enter or select the following information:

    Field Value
    Name Enter a descriptive name for your environment.
    Project Select the project you want to create the environment in. If you have access to more than one project, you see a list of available projects.
    Type Select the environment type you want to create. If you have access to more than one environment type, you see a list of available types.
    Definition Select the environment definition you want to use to create the environment. You see a list of the environment definitions that are available from the catalogs associated with your dev center.

    Screenshot showing the Add an environment pane.

    If your environment is configured to accept parameters, you can enter them on a separate pane. In this example, you don't need to specify any parameters.

  2. Select Create. You see your environment in the developer portal immediately. An indicator shows the progress of the environment creation.

Access an environment

You can access and manage your environments in the Deployment Environments developer portal.

  1. Sign in to the developer portal.

  2. You can view all of your existing environments. To access the resources created as part of an environment, select View resources.

    Screenshot showing an environment card. The View resources link is highlighted.

  3. You can view the resources in your environment in the Azure portal:

    Screenshot showing the list of environment resources.

    Creating an environment automatically creates a resource group that stores the environment's resources. The resource group name follows the pattern {projectName}-{environmentName}. You can view the resource group in the Azure portal.

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