Azure offers a variety of marketplace images which can be deployed to the customers environment. Azure managed applications takes a slightly different approach by offering predefined resources and applications to your internal organization on the internal service catalog or for the public marketplace which are then operated and maintained by the publisher.

This approach enables customers or users within your internal organization with less experience in managing the azure platform to securely and reliably operate offers from third-party or the internal service catalog.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

• Azure managed applications overview
• Azure managed applications architecture
• Creating a managed application definition
• Testing and validation of our template files
• Publishing a managed application to the internal service catalog
• Deploying a...