Azure Resource Manager or how to create your cloud infrastructure by the power of thought Anton Boyko Microsoft Azure MVP, MCP Microsoft TE v-anboyk@microsoft.com boyko.ant@live.com

Azure deployment models

Service model (aka classic)

Applica'onInsight

SqlDatabase

MobileApp

Storage WebApp

Resource model

ResourceGroup

Applica'onInsight

SqlDatabase

MobileApp

Storage WebApp

Resource group

•  Groupof'ghtlycoupledresourcesthatsharealifecycle

•  Containerformul'pleresources

•  Resourcesexistinoneresourcegroup

•  Resourcegroupscanspanregions

•  Resourcegroupscanspanservices

Power of repeatability

ARMtemplatescan•  Ensureidempotency•  Simplifyorchestra'on• Providecross-resourceconfigura'onandupdatesupport

•  IntegrateinCI/CDpipeline

ARMtemplatesare•  Sourcefile,checked-in•  Specifiesresourcesanddependencies(VMs,WebApps,DBs)andconnec'ons(config,LBsets)

•  Input/outputwithparameters

ARM templates

•  Parameters•  userinputforthetemplate

•  Variables•  Datatobereusedinthetemplate•  Nouserinput•  Ex:subnetIPrange,resourcesnameswithprefixes

•  Resources•  Modelsalltheresourcesintheresourcegroup

•  Outputs•  informa'ontobesendfromtheexecu'on•  Ex:DNSnameforthecreatedblog

ARM template parameters "parameters": {

"EnvironmentName": {

"type": "string",

"minLength": 1,

"maxLength": 10

},

"WebFarmSKU": {

"type": "string",

"allowedValues": [ "Standard", "Premium" ],

"defaultValue": "Standard"

},

"WebFarmWorkersCount": {

"type": "int",

"allowedValues": [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ],

"defaultValue": 1

}

}

ARM template variables

"variables": {

"WebFarmName": "[concat('WebFarm-‘, parameters('EnvironmentName'), '-', uniqueString(resourceGroup().id))]",

"SqlServerName": "[toLower(concat('SqlServer-', parameters('EnvironmentName'), '-', uniqueString(resourceGroup().id)))]",

"CdnProfileName": "[concat('Cdn-', parameters('EnvironmentName'), '-', uniqueString(resourceGroup().id))]",

"StorageName": "[toLower(concat(parameters('EnvironmentName'), uniqueString(resourceGroup().id)))]"

}

ARM template resources

"resources": [{

"name": "[variables('WebFarmName')]",

"type": "Microsoft.Web/serverfarms",

"location": "[resourceGroup().location]",

"apiVersion": "2014-06-01",

"dependsOn": [],

"tags": {},

"properties": {

"name": "[variables('WebFarmName')]",

"sku": "[parameters('WebFarmSKU')]",

"workerSize": "[parameters('WebFarmWorkersSize')]",

"numberOfWorkers": "[parameters('WebFarmWorkersCount')]"

}

}]

ARM template and parameters

Template"parameters": {

…

},

"variables": {

…

},

"resources": [

…

],

"outputs": {

…

}

Parameters"parameters": {

"EnvironmentName": {

"value": "demo"

},

"SqlServerAdminLogin": {

"value": "master"

},

"SqlServerAdminPassword": {

"value": "Qwerty12!"

}

}

ARM template execuAon

Start

AppPlan

SqlServer

WebApp

SqlDB

Conn.String

AlertRule

StorageAcc.

Backuppolicy

End

Moving to ARM

• ARMtemplatecanbeextractedfromanyexis'ngresourcegroupviaexportdeploymentfunc'onality(currentlyinpreview)

• Resourceexplorercanbeusedtofindoutcurrentresourceconfigura'onhSps://resources.azure.com/

• QuickstarttemplatesonGitHubhSps://github.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates

• UkrainianAzureCommunitytemplatesonGitHubhSps://github.com/AzureUA/ARM-Templates

Role based access control

WriAng ARM templates

Any JSON editor

Visual Studio

Deploying ARM templates

Visual Studio

Azure PowerShell

PS C:\Users\v-anboyk>

New-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment

-TemplateFile <path-to-template>

-TemplateParameterFile <path-to-params>

-ResourceGroupName <group-name>

-Name <deployment-name>

Azure xPlat CLI

C:\Users\v-anboyk>

azure group deployment create

--template-file <path-to-template>

--parameters-file <path-to-params>

--resource-group <group-name>

--name <deployment-name>

Azure portal

QuesAons?

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