TeamCloud is a tool that enables enterprise IT organizations to provide application development teams "self-serve" access to secure compliant cloud development environments.
There are several components that make up the TeamCloud solution.
The TeamCloud CLI is an extension for the Azure CLI. It can be used by application development teams to create and manage Projects, and by TeamCloud admins to create new TeamCloud instances or manage existing instances.
At the center of the tool is a TeamCloud instance (the source code in this repository). An enterprise deploys a single TeamCloud instance, along with one or more Providers, to an Azure subscription managed by its IT organization.
A TeamCloud instance is composed of two parts:
- A user-facing REST API that enables TeamCloud admins to manage the TeamCloud instance, and application development teams to create and manage Projects.
- An internal orchestration service (sometimes referred to as "the orchestrator") that communicates with one or more Providers responsible for creating and managing resources for a Project.
A TeamCloud instance is made up of the following Azure resources:
- App Service
- App Configuration
- Cosmos DB
- Function Apps
- Storage Accounts
- Key Vault
- Event Grid
- Application Insights
These resources are deployed using the CLI. After installing the CLI use az tc deploy -h deployment instructions.
Although the TeamCloud CLI exposes all functionality provided by TeamCloud, you can also deploy a client website to interact with your instance.
A TeamCloud instance and its registered Providers define a templates (Project Types) for a policy-compliant, secure, cloud development environment, which software development teams can create on-demand. In the context of TeamCloud, these cloud development environments are called Projects.
A Provider is responsible for managing one or more resources for a Project. For example, an organization may implement an "Azure Key Vault Provider" responsible for creating a new Key Vault instance for each Project. Another example would be a "GitHub repo provider" that creates an associated source code repository for each Project.
Providers are registered with a TeamCloud instance and invoked by the Orchestrator when a Project is created or changed. Any service that implements required REST endpoints can be registered as a Provider using the CLI.
This project is in active development and will change. As the tool becomes ready for use, it will be versioned and released.
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