Microsoft Azure support for Visual Studio Code is provided through a rich set of extensions that make it easy to discover and interact with the cloud services that power your applications.
If you do not have an Azure subscription, sign up today for a free account and get $200 in Azure Credits to try out any combination of Azure services.
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Host your web sites using App Service, Azure's fully-managed Platform as a Service (PaaS) that let's you deploy and scale web, mobile, and API apps. The Azure App Service extension lets you quickly quickly create sites, deploy them, view logs, and even set environment variables (such as a Connection String), right from within VS Code. For more information, see the App Service Walkthrough.
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If you are using MongoDB you can seamlessly store and retrieve your data using Cosmos DB, Azure's globally distributed database service. CosmosDB is "multi-model", meaning it supports a variety of common database APIs such as MongoDB, Graph, SQL, and Apache Cassandra. If your application already uses one of these database services, you can take advantage of CosmosDB's low latency and global scalability without changing a line of code. VS Code's Cosmos DB support lets you create and manage databases as well as write MongoDB command scripts in a scrapbook, with rich completions (IntelliSense) just as if you were writing JavaScript, Python, or C#.
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If you use SQL Server or Azure SQL Databases to store data for your applications, the SQL Server extension enables SQL database connectivity directly within VS Code. With handy commands for connecting to database servers or instances, in-editor query results views, and IntelliSense completion for SQL, you'll be able to validate your code is manipulating your data properly without leaving VS Code.
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"Serverless computing" is done using Functions, Azure's event driven, compute on demand service. You focus on writing the code and Azure will managed the infrastructure. The Functions support in VS Code lets you quickly browse, create, manage, deploy, and even debug functions locally. For more information, please see the Functions Walkthrough.
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Have a static site you want to host? You can use Azure Storage to host your site quickly and inexpensively. The Storage service also provides massive scale blob, file, and document storage with low latency and high throughput. VS Code's Storage support lets you deploy static sites, browse and edit Blob Containers, File Shares, Tables, and Queues. For more information, please see the Static Site Walkthrough.
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Store your Docker images in private Container Registries using the Azure Container Registry, and run them in the cloud using App Service. VS Code's support for Docker helps you author
Dockerfileanddocker-composefiles with rich completions (IntelliSense), syntax highlighting and checking, and linting support. The Explorer view makes it easy to build, run, and manage your local and remote containers and images. For more information, please see the Docker Walkthrough. -
The Azure CLI makes it easy to manage all of your Azure resources from a terminal. If you write CLI scripts, VS Code's support provides syntax highlighting and completions (IntelliSense) for the CLI commands as well as your resources in Azure. You can execute one or more commands and even see the results in richly formatted
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You can also automate management of Azure resources using Azure Resource Manager ("ARM") templates. VS Code's support for ARM makes it easy to author these
jsondocuments with rich editing and navigation experiences for deployment templates and template language expressions, including completions (IntelliSense) for TLE function names, parameter references, signature help, Go to Definition, Peek Definition, and Find All References (Shift+F12) as well as Errors and Warnings.
Intalling the Azure Tools installs all of the extensions listed above. Some of these extensions will also install the Azure Account extension which provides a single Azure login and subscription filtering experience.
You can easily uninstall individual extensions or all of them by uninstalling this extension, without affecting other extensions provided by this pack.
To sign in to your Azure Account, simply press F1 and type in Azure: Sign in (or click on the Sign in to Azure... node in the Explorer).
From there, you will be prompted to open the browser and follow the device OAuth login flow. Note that the code will be automatically copied to the clipboad for you.
Note: You may be prompted for access to your computer's secure credential storage service (e.g. Keychain Access on MacOS or Windows Credential Manager) so you don't need to sign in every time you start VS Code.
Once signed in, you can access many of your Azure resources through the Azure Explorer. If you have not signed into Azure yet, or if you don't have an Azure subscription, you can click on the approriate links.
You can access almost all Azure Services through the Command Palette. Simply press F1, then type in Azure to find the available commands.
Docker commands can be found in the Command Palette in the same way, by pressing F1 and then typing in Docker.
Got a suggestion for the Azure Tools extension? Submit a new issue and a PR with an updated package.json and README.md and we'll take a look!
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