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• What are the top 30 Azure development tools for Azure development. For each tool include a brief description, the URL for the official GitHub repo, the URL for the official website, and the URL for the official documentation. Answer using MediaWiki format.

Developing applications for Azure involves a wide array of tools, ranging from integrated development environments (IDEs), SDKs, to command-line tools and extensions that enhance productivity and streamline the deployment and management of Azure resources. Here's a list of some of the top tools essential for Azure development, including their descriptions and relevant URLs. Note that not all tools may have a dedicated GitHub repository, especially those that are services offered directly by Azure, but where possible, links to their official documentation and websites are provided.

This list includes essential tools and services that facilitate application development on the Microsoft Azure platform.

• Description: A command-line tool providing a great experience for managing Azure resources. Azure CLI is designed to make scripting easy, flexibly query data, support long-running operations as non-blocking processes, and more.
• GitHub: s://github.com/Azure/azure-cli
• Website: s://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/
• Documentation: s://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/

• Description: A set of cmdlets for managing Azure resources directly from the PowerShell command line. Designed for managing and administering Azure resources from PowerShell.
• GitHub: s://github.com/Azure/azure-powershell
• Website: s://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/azure/
• Documentation: s://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/azure/

• Description: A lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript, and Node.js and has a rich ecosystem of extensions for other languages and runtimes, including C# for Azure development.
• GitHub: s://github.com/microsoft/vscode
• Website: s://code.visualstudio.com/
• Documentation: s://code.visualstudio.com/docs

• Description: Provides developer libraries for building applications on Azure with various programming languages including .NET, Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, C++, Go, PHP, and Ruby.
• GitHub: s://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk
• Website: s://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/
• Documentation: s://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/samples/?sort=0

• Description: A suite of development tools for software teams, including Azure Repos for Git repositories, Azure Pipelines for CI/CD, Azure Boards for planning, and more.
• GitHub: N/A
• Website: s://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/devops/
• Documentation: s://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/?view=azure-devops

• Description: Command-line tools available for creating, developing, testing, running, and debugging Azure Functions.
• GitHub: s://github.com/Azure/azure-functions-core-tools
• Website: N/A
• Documentation: s://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-run-local

• Description: A standalone app from Microsoft that allows you to easily work with Azure Storage data on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
• GitHub: s://github.com/microsoft/AzureStorageExplorer
• Website: s://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/features/storage-explorer/
• Documentation: s://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/vs-azure-tools-storage-manage-with-storage-explorer

• Description: A fully managed platform for building, deploying, and scaling your web apps.
• GitHub: N/A
• Website: s://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/app-service/
• Documentation: s://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/

• Description: A managed Kubernetes container orchestration service that simplifies Kubernetes management, deployment, and operations.
• GitHub: N/A
• Website: s://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/kubernetes-service/
• Documentation: s://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/

• Description: A globally distributed, multi-model database service for any scale.
• GitHub: N/A
• Website: s://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cosmos-db/
• Documentation: s://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/

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• Description: An open-source tool created by HashiCorp for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently, with first-class support for Azure.
• GitHub: s://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-azurerm
• Website: s://www.terraform.io/
• Documentation: s://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/azurerm/latest/docs

• Description: A declarative language for describing and deploying Azure resources that aims to simplify the authoring experience and provide a cleaner syntax.
• GitHub: s://github.com/Azure/bicep
• Website: s://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/bicep/
• Documentation: s://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/bicep/

• Description: Provides full-stack monitoring, advanced analytics, and machine-learning capabilities to improve the performance and availability of your applications.
• GitHub: N/A
• Website: s://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/monitor/
• Documentation: s://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/

• Description: Allows you to enforce organizational standards and to assess compliance at scale.
• GitHub: N/A
• Website: s://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/azure-policy/
• Documentation: s://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/governance/policy/

• Description: A cloud service that helps you automate and orchestrate tasks, business processes, and workflows when you need to integrate apps, data, systems, and services across enterprises or organizations.
• GitHub: N/A
• Website: s://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/logic-apps/
• Documentation: s://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/logic-apps/

• Description: A service that automatically builds and deploys full stack web apps to Azure from a code repository.
• GitHub: N/A
• Website: s://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/app-service/static/
• Documentation: s://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/static-web-apps/

• Description: An integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft with comprehensive tools and services for developing applications that run on Microsoft Azure.
• GitHub: N/A
• Website: s://visualstudio.microsoft.com/
• Documentation: s://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/?view=vs-2019

• Description: A fully managed relational database with auto-scale, integral intelligence, and robust security.
• GitHub: N/A
• Website: s://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/sql-database/
• Documentation: s://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/

• Description: Microsoft’s cloud-based identity and access management service, which helps your employees sign in and access resources.
• GitHub: N/A
• Website: s://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/active-directory/
• Documentation: s://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/

• Description: A single service for managing routing of all events from any source to any destination.
• GitHub: N/A
• Website: s://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/event-grid/
• Documentation: s://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-grid/

• Description: A fully managed enterprise message broker with message queues and publish-subscribe topics.
• GitHub: N/A
• Website: s://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/service-bus/
• Documentation: s://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-bus-messaging/

• Description: An extensible Application Performance Management (APM) service for web developers.
• GitHub: N/A
• Website: s://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/monitor/#application-insights
• Documentation: s://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/app/app-insights-overview

• Description: A cloud-based data integration service that allows you to create data-driven workflows for orchestrating and automating data movement and data transformation.
• GitHub: N/A
• Website: s://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/data-f actory/
• Documentation: s://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/

• Description: A scalable data storage and analytics service for big data analytics workloads that require massive parallel processing.
• GitHub: N/A
• Website: s://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/data-lake/
• Documentation: s://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-lake-store/

• Description: An Apache Spark-based analytics platform optimized for the Microsoft Azure cloud services platform.
• GitHub: N/A
• Website: s://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/databricks/
• Documentation: s://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/

• Description: Allows developers and testers to quickly create environments in Azure while minimizing waste and controlling cost.
• GitHub: N/A
• Website: s://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/devtest-lab/
• Documentation: s://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devtest-labs/

This list represents a mixture of tools, services, and platforms that are pivotal for developing, deploying, and managing applications on the Azure platform. Each tool provides unique capabilities that cater to different aspects of the Azure development lifecycle.

The tools and services listed are crucial for developers working in the Azure ecosystem, facilitating a wide range of development activities from infrastructure management, code development, and version control, to application monitoring, performance management, and security.