Don’t forget to check out the other parts in this series:
Part 1 – Version Control Part 2 – Testing Part 3- Build In part 1 of this series we took our first step in building an Infrastructure as code pipeline by moving our infrastructure files into source control. Now that we have this code in a central repository we can use this as a base for the next steps in this process.
Role Based Access Control is Azure’s method for setting permissions on resources to control who can manage and administer these resources. Each type of Azure resource has a number of permissions that can be set on it, and these permissions can be grouped into roles that can be applied to users or groups of users to grant rights to manage resources. Out of the box Azure comes with a large number of pre-defined roles for common workloads.
Don’t forget to check out the other parts in this series:
Part 1 – Version Control Part 2 – Testing Part 3- Build Defining Infrastructure as Code is becoming prevalent in all areas of IT, but none more so than in the cloud. Be this Azure Resource Manager Templates, AWS Cloudformation or third party tools like Terraform. Once you’ve gone down this route, you open up the ability to treat your infrastructure code like any other code, and because it’s just code you can now leverage some of the tools developers have been using for years in their software lifecycle.
Virtual Machines in a Scale Set provide a great way to spin up many identical machines in parralell. Thes VMs are all based on a common VM image and so unless all you need on your VMs is Windows, you are going to need to load applicaitons and data into these VMs. Getting your applications into that image can be done one of two ways:
Use a Gallery image for your scale set and apply your applications on each VM when it is deployed using something like the PowerShell DSC extension, or Chef/Puppet etc.
At this months Build conference there where lot’s of new Azure announcements and in particular lots of new features for Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates. Ryan Jones. PM on ARM templates, did a breakout session talking about all this new functionality which is available now on channel 9. I want to focus on one of the big improvements, at least from perspective, and that is we now have proper conditional logic in ARM templates!
