Virtual machine solutions using ARM templates

Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) resources and solutions can be deployed and configured using ARM templates. The major resources related to IaaS are virtual machine resources.

Creating a virtual machine resource is dependent on multiple other resources in Azure. Some of the resources that are needed to create a virtual machine include:

• A storage account or a managed disk for hosting the operating system and data disk
• A virtual network along with subnets
• A network interface card

There are other resources that are optional, including:

• Azure Load Balancer
• Network security groups
• Public IP address
• Route tables and more

This section will deal with the process of creating virtual machines using ARM templates. As mentioned before in this section, we need to create a few resources, upon which the virtual machine resource will depend, prior to creating the virtual machine resource itself...