Cloud Development with Azure Developer CLI (azd). As an open-source developer tool, Azure Developer CLI (azd) is a great cloud development developer-centric tool for developers working with Azure.azd allows you to develop with Azure with consistently across the terminal, integrate with your DevOps CI/CD pipelines like GitHub Actions and work with your project from building, deployment, monitoring, and more.In this blog, Jonah Andersson shares the important concepts you need to get started with Azure Developer CLI (azd) for your development projects – from configuring your local environment or dev containers, using azd templates, and other great stuff you need to know about using this developer tool for cloud development.