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Expert knowledge for Azure Deployment Environments development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. Use when defining environment.yaml, configuring dev cen

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Azure Deployment Environments Skill

This skill provides expert guidance for Azure Deployment Environments. Covers troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. It combines local quick-reference content with remote documentation fetching capabilities.

How to Use This Skill

IMPORTANT for Agent: Use the Category Index below to locate relevant sections. For categories with line ranges (e.g., L35-L120), use read_file with the specified lines. For categories with file links (e.g., [security.md](security.md)), use read_file on the linked reference file

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Category Index

CategoryLinesDescription
TroubleshootingL37-L41Diagnosing and resolving custom image deployment failures in Azure Deployment Environments, including common error patterns, logs to inspect, and remediation steps.
Best PracticesL42-L46Guidance on organizing and structuring Azure Deployment Environments catalogs, including repo layout, template grouping, naming, and governance for scalable, maintainable catalogs.
Decision MakingL47-L51Guidance on planning, executing, and managing the retirement or replacement of Azure Deployment Environments, including migration and decommissioning considerations.
Architecture & Design PatternsL52-L56Guidance on designing resilient, scalable Azure Deployment Environments architectures, including fault tolerance, high availability, redundancy, and best practices for robust environment design.
Limits & QuotasL57-L61Requesting and managing quota increases for Azure Deployment Environments resource limits, including how to handle capacity constraints and raise support requests.
SecurityL62-L69RBAC and identity setup for Deployment Environments: planning and assigning roles, configuring managed identities, and authenticating to the REST APIs.
ConfigurationL70-L82Defining environment.yaml, configuring dev centers/projects, catalogs, environment types, CLI/ARM setup, auto-deletion, and ADE CLI env vars for Azure Deployment Environments.
Integrations & Coding PatternsL83-L89Using Azure Developer CLI and ADE CLI to create environments, build custom container images, and manage custom image workflows for Azure Deployment Environments
DeploymentL90-L93Using Azure Deployment Environments with CI/CD tools (Azure Pipelines, GitHub Actions) to automate environment creation, updates, and deployments from templates.

Troubleshooting

TopicURL
Diagnose custom image deployment failures in Azure Deployment Environmentshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/deployment-environments/troubleshoot-custom-image-logs-errors

Best Practices

TopicURL
Structure Azure Deployment Environments catalogs efficientlyhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/deployment-environments/best-practice-catalog-structure

Decision Making

TopicURL
Plan retirement and replacement for Azure Deployment Environmentshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/deployment-environments/deployment-environments-retirement-guide

Architecture & Design Patterns

TopicURL
Design resilient Azure Deployment Environments architectureshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/deployment-environments/concept-reliability-deployment-environments

Limits & Quotas

TopicURL
Request quota increases for ADE resource limitshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/deployment-environments/how-to-request-quota-increase

Security

TopicURL
Plan Azure RBAC roles for Deployment Environmentshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/deployment-environments/concept-deployment-environments-role-based-access-control
Authenticate to Azure Deployment Environments REST APIshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/deployment-environments/how-to-authenticate
Configure managed identity for Azure Deployment Environments dev centerhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/deployment-environments/how-to-configure-managed-identity
Assign RBAC roles for Azure Deployment Environments accesshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/deployment-environments/how-to-manage-deployment-environments-access

Configuration

TopicURL
Define Azure Deployment Environments with environment.yaml schemahttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/deployment-environments/concept-environment-yaml
Configure Git-based catalogs for Azure Deployment Environmentshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/deployment-environments/how-to-configure-catalog
Configure dev center environment types in Azure Deployment Environmentshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/deployment-environments/how-to-configure-devcenter-environment-types
Configure project-level environment types in Azure Deployment Environmentshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/deployment-environments/how-to-configure-project-environment-types
Install and use the devcenter Azure CLI extensionhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/deployment-environments/how-to-install-devcenter-cli-extension
Configure automatic deletion for ADE environmentshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/deployment-environments/how-to-schedule-environment-deletion
Configure dev centers and catalogs for Azure Deployment Environmentshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/deployment-environments/quickstart-create-and-configure-devcenter
Provision dev centers and projects with ARM templateshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/deployment-environments/quickstart-create-dev-center-project-azure-resource-manager
Reference ADE CLI environment variables for custom imageshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/deployment-environments/reference-deployment-environment-variables

Integrations & Coding Patterns

TopicURL
Create ADE environments using Azure Developer CLIhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/deployment-environments/how-to-configure-azure-developer-cli-deployment-environments
Use custom container images with Azure Deployment Environmentshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/deployment-environments/how-to-configure-extensibility-model-custom-image
Use ADE CLI commands for custom image workflowshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/deployment-environments/reference-deployment-environment-cli

Deployment

TopicURL
Integrate ADE with Azure Pipelines for CI/CDhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/deployment-environments/tutorial-deploy-environments-in-cicd-azure-devops

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