Azure Spring Cloud for Visual Studio Code (Preview)

Azure Spring Cloud provides a managed service that lets you run microservices on Azure using Spring Boot with no code changes. Use the Azure Spring Cloud extension for VS Code to quickly create, manage and deploy apps to an Azure Spring Cloud instance.

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Installation

1. Download and install the Azure Spring Cloud extension for Visual Studio Code
2. Wait for the extension to finish installing then reload Visual Studio Code when prompted
3. Once complete, you'll see an Azure icon in the Activity Bar

   If your activity bar is hidden, you won't be able to access the extension. Show the Activity Bar by clicking View > Appearance > Show Activity Bar

4. Sign in to your Azure Account by clicking Sign in to Azure…

   If you don't already have an Azure Account, click "Create a Free Azure Account" or you can try Azure for free

Deploy your first Spring Boot app to Azure Spring Cloud

Once you are signed in to your Azure account and you have your app open in Visual Studio Code, click the Azure icon in the Activity Bar to open the Azure Explorer and you will see the Azure Spring Cloud panel.

1. Right-click on your subscription and click Create Service in Portal. Finish the following steps on Azure Portal to create an Azure Spring Cloud service instance.

   

2. After the service instance is created, refresh the Azure Explorer and it will show up. Right-click on the service instance and click Create App. Type app name, select Java version and then press Enter to start creating.

   

3. The app will be ready in a few minutes, right click on the App and click Deploy, select your built Jar file when prompted.

   

4. You can see the deployment status on the bottom right. Once done, click Access Public Endpoint to test the app running on Azure, click Yes when prompted to assign public endpoint. Be aware that only Spring Boot fat Jar is supported, learn more about apps on Azure Spring Cloud.

   

Scale the App

1. You can easily scale the app by right click on the Instance count under Scale Settings and click Edit. Type 2 and press Enter to scale the app.

   

Stream Your Application Logs

1. Expand the App Instances node, right click the instance you want to see logs and click Start Streaming Logs.

   

2. The Visual Studio Code output window opens with a connection to the log stream

   

Contributing

There are a couple of ways you can contribute to this repo:

• Ideas, feature requests and bugs: We are open to all ideas and we want to get rid of bugs! Use the Issues section to either report a new issue, provide your ideas or contribute to existing threads.
• Documentation: Found a typo or strangely worded sentences? Submit a PR!
• Code: Contribute bug fixes, features or design changes:
  • Clone the repository locally and open in VS Code.
  • Install TSLint for Visual Studio Code.
  • Open the terminal (press CTRL+`) and run npm install.
  • To build, press F1 and type in Tasks: Run Build Task.
  • Debug: press F5 to start debugging the extension.

Legal

You will need to sign a Contribution License Agreement before we can accept your pull request. All you need to do is to submit a pull request, then the PR will get appropriately labelled (e.g. cla-required, cla-norequired, cla-signed, cla-already-signed). If you already signed the agreement we will continue with reviewing the PR, otherwise system will tell you how you can sign the CLA. Once you sign the CLA all future PR's will be labeled as cla-signed.

Code of Conduct

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.

Telemetry

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License

MIT