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Post migration DevOps experience

Applies to: ✔️ Front Door (classic) ✔️ CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic)

After migrating from Azure Front Door (classic) or CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) to Azure Front Door Standard or Premium, update your DevOps pipeline scripts to deploy and manage the new Front Door Standard or Premium resources. Use the following guidance for various tools and pipeline types.

Terraform

Prerequisites

Steps

After migration, all classic Azure Front Door resources are migrated to Azure Front Door Standard and Premium. Then:

  • Export the new Azure Front Door Standard or Premium configuration: Use Azure’s export tool to generate Terraform configurations for your new Front Door Standard or Premium resources. Follow Quickstart: Export your first resources using Azure Export for Terraform to export the Front Door Standard or Premium resources into Terraform files.
  • Update Terraform templates in your pipeline: Replace references to Front Door classic resources with the exported Standard or Premium configuration.
  • Check in the updated Terraform code to your pipeline and run plan and apply to start managing the new Front Door via Terraform.

ARM template

Steps

After migration, all classic Azure Front Door resources are migrated to Azure Front Door Standard and Premium.

  • Export ARM templates for Front Door Standard/Premium by using any of the following methods:
  • Update ARM templates in your pipeline to use the new Front Door Standard/Premium template instead of the Front Door (classic) template. In Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, update the template path and parameters in your deployment step, and then deploy the new template.
  • Validate: Remove or archive references to the classic Front Door template to avoid confusion.

Bicep

Prerequisites

Steps

After migration, all classic Azure Front Door resources are migrated to Azure Front Door Standard and Premium.

  • Generate a Bicep template for Front Door Standard/Premium by decompiling an exported ARM template. See Decompile ARM template JSON to Bicep.
  • Update Bicep files in your pipeline: Replace Front Door (classic) definitions with Standard/Premium. This replacement might include updating resource types such as Microsoft.Cdn/profiles and child resources (endpoints, routes, and so on).
  • Test a deployment (for example, az deployment group create) to verify provisioning of Azure Front Door Standard or Premium.

PowerShell

Prerequisites

Make sure you have the latest Azure PowerShell Az modules installed (Az.Cdn module version that supports Azure Front Door Standard or Premium). See Install Azure PowerShell.

Steps

  • Update PowerShell deployment scripts: Replace any Azure Front Door (classic) cmdlets with Azure Front Door Standard or Premium cmdlets. For examples, see the Azure Front Door PowerShell quickstart.
  • Incorporate new configuration and remove old references: Ensure scripts configure required components (origins, origin groups, routes, rules, and so on). Remove or comment commands that manage Azure Front Door (classic).
  • Command group mapping:
    • AzFrontDoorCdn commands under the Az.Cdn module are for Azure Front Door Standard or Premium.
    • AzCdn commands under the Az.Cdn module are for CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic).
    • The Az.FrontDoor module is for Azure Front Door (classic).
  • Test your script (locally or in a test pipeline) to verify creation or updates to Azure Front Door Standard or Premium, then commit changes to your pipeline.

CLI

Prerequisites

  • Ensure Azure CLI is installed and updated to a version that supports the afd command group (for example, 2.63.0 or later). See Install Azure CLI.
  • Log in (az login) and set the correct subscription context.

Steps

  • Update CLI commands in scripts: Use the Azure Front Door Standard/Premium command group: az afd.
  • Replace or remove Front Door (classic) CLI usage:
  • Validate the updated CLI script manually or in a staging pipeline to ensure successful configuration of Front Door Standard/Premium.