This fairly new service in Azure is positioned as a tool for Platform Engineering teams for providing a secure and well-governed access for dev teams to Azure, in a self-service way. Providing a curated catalogue of validated IaC templates that are written in a compliant way, allowing developers to focus on their applications without worrying about infrastructure, and letting the service deploy the infrastructure on behalf of devs, and easily integrate with their existing CI/CD pipelines or CLI tools.

Let’s explore Deployment Environments in more practical way and see, how it either competes or complements other offerings (like DevTest Labs) and frameworks such as Azure Landing Zones.