Azure Resource Manager Templates Quick Start Guide电子书

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Azure Resource Manager Templates Quick Start Guide

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Section 1: ARM Template Foundational Skills

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

Provisioning

Parallel

Multi-region

API-driven

Automation

Management

Tags

Resource groups

Hierarchical

Monitoring

Logs

Alerts

Actions

Governance

Role-based access control

Policies

Locks

Summary

Azure Resource Manager Templates

Setting up the development environment

Using Visual Studio 2017 as a development environment

Using Visual Studio Code as a development environment

ARM template structure

Writing your first template

Template deployment

Deployment using Azure portal

Deployment using the Azure CLI

Deployment using PowerShell

Understanding Complete and Incremental deployment

How does Incremental take care of these differences?

How to create and apply configuration in the case of Complete deployments

Parameters

Structure of a parameter in an ARM template

Referencing a parameter within a template

Grouping parameters

Variables

Accessing variables

Summary

Understanding Core Elements of ARM Templates

ARM template expressions

ARM template functions

Resources

Resource names

Resource types

API Version

Resource properties

Resource locations

Resources and nested resources

Outputs

A complete template

Nesting resources

Understanding dependsOn

Using references

Understanding resourceId

Using linked templates

Nested templates

Summary

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

Conditions that return a Boolean value

Conditions that return condition values

Advanced deployments

Using copy with deployment resources

Creating resource groups, using ARM templates

Deploying resources into multiple resource groups, using the deployment resource

Deploying resources into multiple resource groups in multiple subscriptions

Creating Nested Deployments

Summary

Section 2: ARM Template Advanced Concepts

IaaS Solutions Using Templates

Configuration inside an Azure virtual machine

Protecting scripts using SAS tokens

Using protectedSettings

CustomScriptExtension as separate resource

Getting output from CustomScriptExtension

Using CustomScriptExtension with Linux virtual machines

Desired State Configuration

Using configuration data

Summary

Unit Testing ARM Templates

Unit testing

Unit testing ARM templates

Retrieving outputs from ARM templates

Using Pester

Setting up the test harness

Unit testing of a storage account

Unit testing a public IP address

Unit testing virtual networks

Unit testing an NIC

Unit testing a virtual machine

The complete unit test script

Summary

Design Patterns

Why use modular ARM templates?

Single responsibility principle

Known configuration/T-shirt sizing

Scenario

Technical prerequisites

Setting up Azure login and subscription

New resource group

Creating an Azure Storage Account

Creating an Azure Storage blob container

Generating an Azure Storage SAS token

Uploading ARM templates to storage

Creating an Azure Key Vault

Creating secrets in Key Vault

Creating the Azure AD Service Principal

Assigning permissions to a Service Principal on Key Vault

Deploying the solution

Log to Azure using Service Principal

Deploying the ARM template

Template patterns

Modular ARM templates

Generalized templates

Azure SQL template

App service plan template

Azure App Services template

Using Key Vault for passwords and secrets

Static usage of Key Vault information

Dynamic declaration of Key Vault information

Dependencies between resources

Creating multiple resources in loop

Tagging of resources

Runtime sharing of property values

Redefining resources in the same template

Summary

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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