Deploy services in parallel with dependency awareness

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Service deployments (build, push, provision) are inherently independent but currently run sequentially, causing unnecessary delays when deploying multiple services.

Changes

Service deployment strategy

• All services now deploy in parallel by default (not just container apps)
• Services with dependencies (via uses property) wait for their dependencies to complete
• Dependency detection only considers service-to-service dependencies, not resource references
• Circular dependency detection prevents potential deadlocks

Concurrency implementation

• Uses golang.org/x/sync/errgroup for structured concurrency
• Thread-safe result collection with mutex
• Each service shows individual progress during package/publish/deploy phases
• Fast-fail on any error with automatic context cancellation

Dependency handling

• Leverages the uses property in service config to understand dependencies
• Services waiting for dependencies show "Waiting" state in progress bar
• Circular dependencies are detected upfront and return an error before deployment

User feedback

• Initial message lists services deploying in parallel
• Per-service progress spinners showing: Pending → Waiting → Packaging → Publishing → Deploying → Complete
• Results reported after parallel completion

// Check for service dependencies
hasDependencies := false
for _, svc := range servicesToDeploy {
    for _, dep := range svc.Uses {
        if _, isService := serviceMap[dep]; isService {
            hasDependencies = true
            break
        }
    }
}

// Deploy with dependency awareness
if hasDependencies {
    parallelManager.DeployServicesWithDependencies(ctx, servicesToDeploy, serviceMap)
} else {
    parallelManager.DeployServices(ctx, servicesToDeploy)
}

Testing

• Added unit tests for service filtering logic
• Added unit tests for dependency detection between services
• Added unit tests for circular dependency detection (simple cycles, indirect cycles, self-references)

Original prompt

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This section details on the original issue you should resolve

<issue_title>Deploy container apps in parallel</issue_title>
<issue_description>Today azd deploy acts on each container app sequentially. This can be painfully slow if there are lots of container apps as the process includes:

• Building the application
• Publishing a new container image
• Pushing to the registry
• Creating a new container apps revision (several steps)

</issue_description>

<agent_instructions>Only run parallel deployments if the host services is ContainerApps</agent_instructions>

Comments on the Issue (you are @copilot in this section)

@spboyer related - https://github.com//issues/304

• Fixes Deploy container apps in parallel #3399

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Testing Parallel Container App Deployments

Environment Variable

To enable parallel deployment of Container Apps, set:

export AZD_EXPERIMENTAL_PARALLEL_DEPLOY=1

Or to disable (fallback to sequential):

export AZD_EXPERIMENTAL_PARALLEL_DEPLOY=0

Note: Parallel deployment is disabled by default when this environment variable is not set. The variable needs to be explicitly set to 1 to enable the experimental feature.

How to Test

1. Build the azd CLI with these changes:

   cd cli/azd
   go build -o azd

2. Create or use a project with multiple Container App services (the more services, the better to see parallel behavior):

   # azure.yaml
   name: parallel-test
   
   services:
     api:
       project: ./src/api
       language: js
       host: containerapp
   
     worker:
       project: ./src/worker
       language: js
       host: containerapp
   
     web:
       project: ./src/web
       language: js
       host: containerapp

3. Deploy with the built binary:

   # Use the locally built azd
   /path/to/cli/azd/azd deploy --all

4. What to observe:

   • Multiple services should deploy simultaneously (watch the progress bars)
   • Deployment time should be significantly faster for projects with multiple Container Apps
   • Check that all services deploy successfully without keychain errors

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