Azure Developer Portal Migration

Alpar Gür
7 min readNov 7, 2022
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Recently, we got on with the migration of Azure developer portal. The legacy version is deprecated and will retire in October 2023.
Or maybe by the time you’re reading this it has already been removed ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ .

What is Azure?

Azure is the cloud-computing portal of Microsoft. Azure API Management (APIM) is a hybrid, multi-cloud management platform for APIs across all environments. Developer portal is one of the API Management components available and it is an automatically generated, customizable website which basically introduces shipped products with API documentations.

Background Information

Currently, I am part of a team at Vaillant Group where we build API services for our B2B partners enabling them to leverage their heating data. Heating data describes all data generated from heating system(s) such as boiler and heat pump. Making this data available increases efficiency and decreases the maintenance costs through laying the fundamentals for remote diagnostic use cases, allowing integration of heating solutions to smarthome applications, and presenting more insights based on consumption data.

Prior to migration

In our case, we decided to replicate the website hosted in legacy version as it is…

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