Let’s start this chapter with a horror story. Many moons ago, I was involved with building a web application for a new startup. We provisioned the necessary Azure resources manually using the portal, downloaded our publish profile, and published our app to Azure through Visual Studio. When we first launched, I think we had three daily active users, with two of those being our mothers. Over time, though, the site’s popularity grew, and so did the site’s features and complexity.
Even when we were then dealing with multiple Azure services, we were still performing manual deployments. To deal with ...
