feat: build WAF standards and v3 Bicep changes and deployment scripts

[Roopan-Microsoft]

Purpose

• This pull request introduces several improvements and updates to deployment workflows, configuration documentation, and local development instructions. The main themes are enhanced deployment parameterization, improved post-provisioning guidance, and significant reorganization and clarification of local setup documentation.

Deployment workflow and parameter updates:

• Updated deployment workflows (deploy.yml and deploy-waf.yml) to standardize parameter names (e.g., solutionName, location) and enable new features such as telemetry, monitoring, private networking, and scalability by default. Deprecated or renamed several parameters for clarity and future extensibility. [1] [2]
• Added new VM credential parameters (AZURE_ENV_VM_ADMIN_USERNAME, AZURE_ENV_VM_ADMIN_PASSWORD) to the documentation for improved security and configurability.

Post-provisioning guidance and hooks:

• Introduced post-provision hooks in both azure.yaml and azure_custom.yaml to provide clear instructions for uploading team configurations to Cosmos DB and indexing sample data into Azure Search, supporting both Windows and POSIX environments. [1] [2]

Local development and documentation improvements:

• Completely rewrote and reorganized the local development guide by integrating its content into DeploymentGuide.md, providing step-by-step instructions for environment setup, .env file handling, backend/frontend requirements installation, and running the application. The old LocalDeployment.md file was removed. [1] [2] [3] [4]
• Added troubleshooting section and clarified the Azure Developer CLI (azd) version requirements, including upgrade instructions for different operating systems. [1] [2]

Test workflow update:

• Updated the test workflow to ignore end-to-end tests during coverage runs, streamlining CI results.

Does this introduce a breaking change?

• Yes
• No

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