Automating Azure Resource Group deployment using a Service Principal in Visual Studio Online: Build/Release Management
Oct 4, 2015Vijay Machiraju
Summary
Details the process of connecting Azure subscriptions to Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) for Azure Resource Manager deployments. It outlines a simplified 3-click setup for creating an Azure Service endpoint with a new Service Principal and provides detailed manual configuration steps using a PowerShell script or the Azure portal to create a Service Principal and assign roles. This enables VSTS to provision or deploy Azure Resource Manager resources.
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