Gain practical insights and proven strategies for your development journey for Azure Marketplace. Streamline your solutions' development, packaging, and deployment while ensuring compliance with Microsoft's requirements. Discover common pitfalls, best practices, and automation techniques to reduce time-to-market. Whether you're new to developing for the Azure Marketplace or looking to optimize your approach, this session delivers real-world guidance to help you develop and publish efficiently.
To explore this demo at your own pace:
- Declare your resources in a Bicep file
- Transpile to an Azure Resource Manager template and validate with arm-ttk
- Design the portal experience using createUiDefinition.json
- Package the ARM template and createUiDefinition.json into a zip file
- Upload to Azure Marketplace via Microsoft Partner Center and submit for validation
- Deploy and verify your offer
By the end of this demo, you will be able to:
- Declare and build Azure Marketplace offer templates using Bicep and Azure Resource Manager
- Design and configure the Azure Marketplace portal experience using createUiDefinition.json
- Validate, package, and submit an offer to Azure Marketplace via Microsoft Partner Center
- Apply lessons learned from real-world field experience on the development side of Azure Marketplace offers — including managed application access models, webhook integration, customer usage attribution, and ARM template constraints
Walk away with some amazing holographic Bicep stickers!
Try these prompts with GitHub Copilot to explore the topics from this demo. Open Copilot Chat in VS Code (Ctrl+Alt+I on Windows/Linux, Cmd+Shift+I on Mac), paste a prompt, and see what you learn. Try connecting the Microsoft Learn MCP Server for the latest official documentation.
Use these as a starting point — or write your own!
- Understand the basics:
Explain how Azure Bicep works for defining Azure Marketplace managed application templates. What are the key constraints — like ARM template language version limitations — I should be aware of when authoring for Azure Marketplace?
- Go deeper:
Using the Microsoft Learn MCP Server, find the latest documentation on createUiDefinition.json and explain how to map UI elements to ARM template parameters for an Azure Marketplace managed application offer.
- Build something:
Help me create a basic Azure Marketplace managed application package — including a mainTemplate.bicep, compile it to mainTemplate.json, and a simple createUiDefinition.json — ready to upload to Microsoft Partner Center.
- Azure Bicep - Infra as Code
- Azure Resource Manager
- Azure CLI
- arm-ttk (Azure Resource Manager Template Toolkit)
- Azure Marketplace
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| https://aka.ms/build26-next-steps | Explore lab and session repos to further your learning from Microsoft Build |
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GitHub Copilot CLI — Run this to install the Learn MCP Server as a plugin:
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