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Azure Resource Manager Templates Quick Start Guide
Azure Resource Manager Templates Quick Start Guide

Azure Resource Manager Templates Quick Start Guide: Create, deploy, and manage Azure resources with ARM templates using best practices

By Ritesh Modi
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Azure Resource Manager Templates Quick Start Guide

Section 1: ARM Template Foundational Skills

In this section, the reader will learn the basics of ARM templates. This will include understanding important ARM template constructs and how to deploy them. Authoring complex templates using advanced features, including linked templates and nested templates, will also be part of this chapter. ARM templates have some unique features, such as functions and expressions, which will also be detailed in a comprehensive manner.

This section contains the following chapters:

  • Chapter 1, Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management
  • Chapter 2, Azure Resource Manager Templates
  • Chapter 3, Understanding Core Elements of ARM Templates
  • Chapter 4, Advance Template Features
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  • Design, implement, and unit test ARM templates
  • Develop and deploy ARM templates following security best practices

Description

Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates are declarations of Azure resources in the JSON format to provision and maintain them using infrastructure as code. This book gives practical solutions and examples for provisioning and managing various Azure services using ARM templates. The book starts with an understanding of infrastructure as code, a refresher on JSON, and then moves on to explain the fundamental concepts of ARM templates. Important concepts like iteration, conditional evaluation, security, usage of expressions, and functions will be covered in detail. You will use linked and nested templates to create modular ARM templates. You will see how to create multiple instances of the same resources, how to nest and link templates, and how to establish dependencies between them. You will also learn about implementing design patterns, secure template design, the unit testing of ARM templates, and adopting best practices. By the end of this book, you will understand the entire life cycle of ARM templates and their testing, and be able to author them for complex deployments.

What you will learn

Understand the foundations of ARM templates including nested and linked templates Design, create, and unit test ARM templates using best practices Learn about conditional deployments, looping, Custom Script Extensions using PowerShell, Bash, and DSC Implement design patterns related to ARM templates Run post-deployment PowerShell and Desired State Configuration scripts Create solutions and deploy them on Azure using ARM templates

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Publication date : Feb 28, 2019
Length 234 pages
Edition : 1st Edition
Language : English
ISBN-13 : 9781789803235
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Category :
Cloud & Networking
Concepts :
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Azure (Beginner)

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Publication date : Feb 28, 2019
Length 234 pages
Edition : 1st Edition
Language : English
ISBN-13 : 9781789803235
Vendor :
Microsoft
Category :
Cloud & Networking
Concepts :
Configuration Management
Tools :
Azure (Beginner)

Table of Contents

12 Chapters
Preface Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
To get the most out of this book
Get in touch
1. Section 1: ARM Template Foundational Skills Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Section 1: ARM Template Foundational Skills
2. Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management
What is configuration management?
Infrastructure as Code
What are ARM templates?
Designing ARM templates
A brief primer on JSON
Azure Resource Manager
Summary
3. Azure Resource Manager Templates Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Azure Resource Manager Templates
Setting up the development environment
ARM template structure
Writing your first template
Template deployment
Parameters
Variables
Summary
4. Understanding Core Elements of ARM Templates Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Understanding Core Elements of ARM Templates
ARM template expressions
ARM template functions
Resources
A complete template
Nesting resources
Understanding dependsOn
Using references
Understanding resourceId
Using linked templates
Nested templates
Summary
5. Advance Template Features Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Advance Template Features
Creating multiple instances of a resource type
Creating multiple instances of a resource type, using Serial mode
Creating multiple instances of a resource property
Using copy to generate multiple variables
Conditions in ARM templates
Advanced deployments
Summary
6. Section 2: ARM Template Advanced Concepts Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Section 2: ARM Template Advanced Concepts
7. IaaS Solutions Using Templates Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
IaaS Solutions Using Templates
Configuration inside an Azure virtual machine
Protecting scripts using SAS tokens
Using protectedSettings
CustomScriptExtension as separate resource
Summary
8. Unit Testing ARM Templates Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Unit Testing ARM Templates
Unit testing
Unit testing ARM templates
Retrieving outputs from ARM templates
Using Pester
Setting up the test harness
Summary
9. Design Patterns Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Design Patterns
Why use modular ARM templates?
Scenario
Technical prerequisites
Deploying the solution
Template patterns
Redefining resources in the same template
Summary
10. ARM Template Best Practices Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
ARM Template Best Practices
Use resourceId function
Generate Resource Identifier used multiple times
Use Comments
Use Tags for resources and resource groups
Use parameters sparingly
Group related parameters
Order parameters alphabetically
Constraint parameters if possible
Parameter's defaultValue and API versions
Declare All Resources as top-level resources
Output Resource Properties and Configuration
Resource-naming conventions
Storage of Linked templates
Resource Dependencies
Using Key Vaults for secrets
Using ContentVersion
Deployment – Best Practices
Summary
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Ritesh Modi is a technologist with more than 18 years of experience. He holds a master's degree in science in AI/ML from LJMU. He has been recognized as a Microsoft Regional Director for his contributions to building tech communities, products, and services. He has published more than 10 tech books in the past and is a cloud architect, speaker, and leader who is popular for his contributions to data centers, Azure, Kubernetes, blockchain, cognitive services, DevOps, AI, and automation.
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