Introduction

This repo provides some examples of Azure Resource Manager Templates.

I hope you find it useful.

Samples

Complete Sample

This ARM template provides an example which deploys the following:

• Sql Server.
• App Service Plan.
• App Service for API.
• App Service for User Interface.
• App Service for Background job processor.
• App Service for Azure Functions.
• Application Insights.
• Storage accounts.
• Azure Media Services account.
• Azure Service Bus.
• Azure Service Bus Queue.

Key Vault Sample

This ARM template provides an example which deploys the following:

• Storage Account.
• Key Vault.
• Storage Account connection string to Key Vault.

Deploying ARM Templates

To start deploying ARM templates using PowerShell. A PowerShell shell will need to be running. The Azure RM or the newer Az module will need to be installed. This can be installed or download from PowerShell Gallery

Login to the Azure Subscription using Login-AzureRmAccount. Ensure the PowerShell shell's is running in the directory with the ARM Template and Template parameter files.

Ensure the correct Azure Subscription has been selected.

If a resource group does not already exist to host your infrastructure then create one by:

• New-AzureRmResourceGroup -Name "[name of resource group]" -Location "[location]";
• e.g New-AzureRmResourceGroup -Name i365-arm-test -Location "North Europe";

Run the resource group deployment to deploy the ARM template:

• New-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment -Name "[deployment-name]" -ResourceGroupName [name of resource group] -Mode Incremental -TemplateFile .[arm template file name] -TemplateParameterFile .[arm template parameter file name];

• e.g. New-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment -Name "i365-arm-test-keyvault" -ResourceGroupName i365-arm-test -Mode Incremental -TemplateFile .\i365-keyvaultsample-components.template.json -TemplateParameterFile .\i365-keyvaultsample-live.parameters.json;

Sometimes, the ARM template has secrets that need to be provided for example sql admin passwords. For those I suggest that they are supplied as direct parameters to the New-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment cmd. Using [Tab] you will be able to cycle through the parameters for the ARM template.

For secrets / passwords you will need to convert the password string to a Secure-String using ConverTo-SecureString. Here is an example:

• $sqladminpwd = ConvertTo-SecureString -Force -AsPlainText -String "mypasswordhere";

e.g. New-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment -Name "i365-arm-test-keyvault" -ResourceGroupName i365-arm-test -Mode Incremental -TemplateFile .\i365-keyvaultsample-components.template.json -TemplateParameterFile .\i365-keyvaultsample-live.parameters.json -sql-pwd $sqladminpwd;