Automation with Azure Powershell and ARM Templates

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know
• Install Azure cmdlets

1. The Case for ARM templates

• Why ARM?
• Imperative vs. declarative
• Templates and related terminology
• Deployment options
• Deployment demo

2. Resource Groups

• Resource groups
• Resource group demo
• Create your own resource group

3. Our Project: Cloud Aware

• CloudAware
• Create a demo application
• Deploy a demo application

4. Our Project: Cloud-Optimized

• Cloud-optimized
• DevOps

5. Our Project: Cloud-Invested

• Cloud-invested
• Resource group project
• Improvements
• Improvements demo
• Add parameters

6. Customization

• Functions and linked templates
• Custom dashboards
• Add a shared dashboard to the template

7. Advanced ARM Topics

• Infrastructure as code
• Create a shared resource group
• Demo: VSTS pipeline

8. Final Notes

• Best practices
• Teardown

Conclusion

• Next steps