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

Cover
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Foreword
Contributors
Table of Contents
Preface
Section 1: ARM Template Foundational Skills
Chapter 1: 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
Chapter 2: 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
Chapter 3: 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
Chapter 4: 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
Chapter 5: 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
Chapter 6: 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
Chapter 7: 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
Chapter 8: 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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