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Useful links from The ART of Modern Azure Deployments

Within a few days of each other I spoke about Azure Resource Templates at both DDDNorth 2015 and Integration Mondays run by the Integration User Group. I’d like to thank all of you who attended both and have been very kind in your feedback afterwards.

As promised, this post contains the useful links from my final slide.

I’ve already written posts on much of the content covered in my talk. However, since I’m currently sat on a transatlantic flight you can expect a series of posts to follow this on topics such as objects in templates, outputs and references.

Posted by Rik Hepworth on Sunday, November 1, 2015

Using Objects in Azure Resource Templates

Over the past few weeks I’ve been refactoring and improving the templates that I have been creating for Black Marble to deploy environments in Azure. This is the first post of a few talking about some of the more advanced stuff I’m now doing.

You will remember from my previous posts that within an Azure Resource Template you can define parameters and variables, then use those for the configuration values within your resources. I was finding after a while that the sheer number of parameters and variables I had made the templates hard to read and understand. This was particularly true when my colleagues started to work with thee templates.

Posted by Rik Hepworth on Sunday, November 1, 2015

Using References and Outputs in Azure Resource Templates

As you work more with Azure Resource Templates you will find that you need to pass information from one resource you have created into another. This is fine if you had the information to begin with within your variables and parameters, but what if it’s something you cannot know before deploy, such as the dynamic IP address of your new VM, or the FQDN of your new public IP address for your service?

Posted by Rik Hepworth on Sunday, November 1, 2015

Complex Azure Odyssey Part Four: WAP Server

Part One of this series covered the project itself and the overall template structure. Part Two went through how I deploy the Domain Controller in depth. Part Three talks about deploying my ADFS server and in this final part I will show you how to configure the WAP server that faces the outside world.

The Template

The WAP server is the only one in my environment that faces the internet. Because of this the deployment is more complex. I’ve also added further complexity because I want to be able to have more than one WAP server in future, so there’s a load balancer deployed too. You can see the resource outline in the screenshot below:

Posted by Rik Hepworth on Sunday, August 30, 2015

Complex Azure Template Odyssey Part Three: ADFS Server

Part One of this series covered the project itself and the overall template structure. Part Two went through how I deploy the Domain Controller in depth. This post will focus on the next server in the chain: The ADFS server that is required to enable authentication in the application which will eventually be installed on this environment.

The Template

The nested deployment template for the ADFS server differs little from my DC template. If anything, it’s even simpler because we don’t have to reconfigure the virtual network after deploying the VM. The screenshot below shots the JSON outline for the template.

Posted by Rik Hepworth on Sunday, August 30, 2015

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Rik is CEO and Co-founder of Zure in the UK. He is a recipient of the Microsoft MVP Award and a Microsoft Regional Director. He is a member of the admin team for the Global Azure worldwide community event.

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