Hands-on exercise 1 – Provisioning the lab VM

To follow along with the exercises in this chapter and the rest of this book, we will provision a lab virtual machine (VM) in Azure to work with. We have prepared an Azure ARM template in this book’s GitHub repository for this purpose. The template will deploy a VM and a bastion resource in the specified Azure region, as shown in Figure 3.9:

Figure 3.9 – Resources deployed via the provided ARM template

Here are the tasks that we will complete in this exercise:

• Task 1 –Initialize template deployment in GitHub; complete parameters and deploy the template to Azure
• Task 2 – Connect to the lab VM using Azure Bastion

Let’s get into this!

Task 1 – Initializing the template deployment to Azure

The steps are as follows:

1. Open a web browser and browse to https://github.com/PacktPublishing/DevSecOps-for-Azure/tree/main/chapter-3.

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