There are many possible careers in the IT industry, developer, project manager, tester, but also Ops and DevOps. An especially important part of a modern development cycle is managing your Cloud resources. Deployment needs to happen often and accurately, and it requires effective communication between team members but also great processes and tools.
Infrastructure as Code, IaC is the process of expressing your infrastructure as Code as readable text files over using UIs to configure the same. The benefits of doing so are many. Below are some benefits:
Azure Resource Manager, ARM, is one of the ways you can use to implement IaC, the other way is by using Terraform. The idea is to express your cloud resources as JSON files. Then you deploy the files to the Cloud by running either Azure-CLI or PowerShell. Every JSON file is known as a template. A template contains your resources you want to deploy but it also contains different constructs that makes it easy to manage your resources as things gets more complicated. Examples of such constructs are parameters, variables, template functions and outputs.
IaC using ARM is quite a big topic. Therefore myself and some colleagues have authored a 4 part series describing the various constructs and aspects of it.
Here's a link to the path, an overview page for all the tutorials
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/deploy-manage-resource-manager-templates/
Each tutorial contains various aspects of ARM. Below follows a description of each tutorial:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/create-azure-resource-manager-template-vs-code/
Write Azure Resource Manager templates by using Visual Studio Code to deploy your infrastructure to Azure consistently and reliably.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/modify-azure-resource-manager-template-reuse/
Manage multiple Azure environment deployments of your Azure Resource Manager templates by using functions, variables, tags, and parameter files.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/arm-template-test/
This module teaches two major things, how to preview your changes with the what-if operation and the value of doing so. Secondly it teaches you how to create valid templates and gives you good recommendations that you can follow using the ARM template test toolkit tool.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/deploy-templates-command-line-github-actions/
Learn how to deploy Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates by using Azure PowerShell, the Azure CLI, and from GitHub Actions. Use linked templates to break down complex templates into templates that are more modular.
You must be a registered user to add a comment. If you've already registered, sign in. Otherwise, register and sign in.