I recently had the pleasure to present an Azure ARM templates 101 to Melbourne Infrastructure Coders. I want to thank all of those who attended, David Lutz (@dlutzy) and Matthew Jones (@geekle) for facilitating and REA for the use of their facilities.
My presentation, Automation and Scale On Azure – An Introduction To ARM Templates, covered off an overview of ARM templates, the structure, how it relates to Azure and Azure Stack, a brief comparison against AWS Cloud Formation, Azure Resource Visualiser, deployment methods (Azure Powershell / Azure xPlat CLI) and what you can accomplish with ARM. I also spoke about the tooling you can use to manipulate these templates.
If you haven’t looked at Azure ARM templates and use the Azure platform I thoroughly recommend that go and take a look, it is the future of Azure. There are a number of excellent resources out there for you to make a start, including:
- Visual Studio Code (https://code.visualstudio.com)
- Azure Quick Start Templates (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/templates/ )
- Atom (https://atom.io)
- Azure Resource Visualizer (http://armviz.io/)
- Azure Resource Explorer (https://resources.azure.com)
- ARMClient (https://github.com/projectkudu/ARMClient)
You can find my presentation including the cmdlets used in the demos (see notes) by clicking the following link – Infra Coders – Automation & Scale Using ARM Templates.
