Hi everyone, welcome to the August update of Java on Azure developer tools. In this update, we will introduce our Managed Identity Support for Azure App Service in Azure toolkit, and General Availability of Java experiences on Azure Container Apps. We hope you enjoy these updates and have a smooth experience with our Azure toolkit. Please download and install the Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ. Let’s get started.

Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ Improvements

Managed Identity Support for Azure App Service

​​Managed Identity is a feature in Azure that simplifies the management of credentials for applications. For more details, please visit the documentation. 

In the latest release, we have added Managed Identity support for Azure Web Apps in our toolkit. This feature offers developers the flexibility to use managed identities for authenticating and accessing Azure resources, such as Azure Storage, without the need to manage credentials directly. It helps reduce the risk of credential exposure and streamlines the secure integration of various services. When deploying your Java applications to Azure App Service in our toolkit, you will be prompted to assign roles to access Azure resources. Here is a short demo of it. 

General Availability of Java experiences on Azure Container Apps

In the May’s blog, we introduced our support for Java on Azure Container Apps in Azure toolkit for IntelliJ IDEA. With this support, Java developers can build and deploy their apps using either source code from a GitHub repository or local artifacts, for both new and existing ACA apps. We also added workload profiles support in the subsequent release. 

We are excited to announce that Java experiences on Azure Container Apps are now generally available. These features enable developers to configure, monitor, and troubleshoot Java applications on Azure Container Apps with ease. To learn more, please visit this blog and watch the video to get started. 

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Resources

Here is a list of links that are helpful to learn Java on Azure Tooling.

• Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ documentation
• Azure Toolkit for Eclipse documentation
• Maven Plugin for Azure Web Apps/Functions/Spring Apps
• Gradle Plugin for Azure Web Apps/Functions
• VS Code extension for Azure Spring Apps