Updated: June 9, 2025 (January 2, 2024)
RoadmapDeployment Environments Roadmap
The Azure Deployment Environments service helps development teams repeatably provision Azure resources to host Azure applications for development, testing, and production use. The service has capabilities similar to the older Azure DevTest Labs service. The Azure Development Environments service can help teams ensure that environments where Azure-based applications are deployed contain the necessary resources while managing their access and costs.
Product: Deployment Environments
Near Term (2025–2026)
Deployment Environments is not expected to receive short-term updates.
Long Term (Beyond 2026)
Deployment Environments, which became generally available in May 2023, is a mature service that is not expected to receive major changes. Possible updates include availability in more Azure regions and more integration with Copilot for Azure to enable improved natural language interactivity with the service.
Directions Recommends
Leverage Deployment Environments for quick generation of short-lived environments, such as those for testing check-ins or performing automated builds and tests. The service can ease management and cut costs that could occur when environment deployment is not otherwise controlled.
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