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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.

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.

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.

Posted by Rik Hepworth on Sunday, August 30, 2015

An Introduction To Azure Resource Templates

I have spent a good deal of time over the last month or two building an Azure Resource Template to deploy a relatively complicated IaaS environment. In doing so I’ve hit a variety of problems along the way and I though that a number of blog posts were in order to share what I’ve learned. I will write a detailed post on certain specific servers within the environment shortly. This post will describe Azure Resource Template basics, problems I hit and some decisions I made to overcome issues.

Posted by Rik Hepworth on Sunday, August 23, 2015