Tag Archives: ARM

The live stream recording “ARM Templates Deployment Scripts” is now available!

Posted on 20/10/2020 by Marcel Zehner

On October 19, 2020 I did a live stream together with Microsoft Azure MVP Martin Ehrnst to talk about Deployment Scripts in ARM templates. We talked about the need for deployment scripts for the “last mile configuration” and how they … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure, DevOps | Tagged ARM, arm templates, automation, azure, declarative, DevOps, IaC, imperative, infrastructure as code, microsoft | Leave a comment

The live stream recording “Nested & linked ARM templates” is now available!

Posted on 13/10/2020 by Marcel Zehner

On October 12, 2020 I did a live stream together with Microsoft Azure MVP Martin Ehrnst to talk about nested and linked ARM templates. We covered topics such as nesting, expression evaluation handling, multi-scoping and decomposing strategies. And we quickly … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure, DevOps | Tagged ARM, arm templates, automation, azure, DevOps, IaC, infrastructure as code, lifecycle management, linked, linked templates, microsoft, nested, nested templates | Leave a comment

How to release existing resources from Terraform management

Posted on 12/07/2020 by Marcel Zehner

Some days ago I wrote an article how one can bring existing resources under Terraform management. While this is a valid scenario, the opposite could also be needed. This blog post demonstrates several methods how one can release existing resources … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure | Tagged ARM, arm templates, azure, DevOps, IaC, infrastructure as code, state, terraform | 1 Comment

Managing multiple Azure customers – but how?

Posted on 01/10/2019 by Marcel Zehner

As a service provider that works with a variety of customers, you need a way to manage multiple environments in an easy and efficient way. Azure offers different approaches for this that I want to cover in this blog post.

Posted in Azure | Tagged aad, ARM, azure, azure ad, b2b, customer, delegation, guest, lighthouse, management, partner, permissions, rbac, service provider | Comments Off

Visualize your ARM Templates in VS Code

Posted on 28/09/2019 by Marcel Zehner

My team works a lot with ARM Templates to deploy and maintain Azure-based applications and infrastructure. We normally develop ARM Templates using Visual Studio Code, then manage and release the code using Azure DevOps. Sometimes we hand over code to … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure, DevOps | Tagged ARM, arm templates, DevOps, extension, IaC, infrastructure as code, visual studio code, visualization, vs code, vs code extension | Leave a comment

ARM Templates – Create multiple Instances by using ‘copy’

Posted on 21/07/2019 by Marcel Zehner

Creating multiple instances of Azure resources using copy. Continue reading →

Posted in Azure, DevOps | Tagged ARM, arm templates, copy, DevOps, IaC, iteration, multiply | Leave a comment

Terraform – a first introduction

Posted on 14/05/2018 by Marcel Zehner

Infrastructure as code is very popular for some time already. When talking about deploying infrastructure or application components to Microsoft Azure as code, then the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) will come to your attention. ARM manages resources that live in … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure, DevOps | Tagged ARM, arm templates, hashicorp, HCL, IaC, infrastructure as code, terraform, tf | 2 Comments

Building a simple release pipeline for ARM templates

Posted on 08/11/2017 by Marcel Zehner

Using release pipelines is a pretty common thing for agile developers, but not necessarily for IT Pros. However, they can still very much benefit from that process when working with their IT pro artefacts such as scripts, ARM templates, runbooks, … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure, DevOps | Tagged ARM, IaC, release pipeline, template, templates, visual studio, vsts | 1 Comment

Speaking at geekmania 2016

Posted on 20/10/2016 by Marcel Zehner

For many years – since 2007 – I have been a speaker at the annual technical conference “geekmania” in Switzerland. It’s the time of the year again when the geeky conference comes to live! This year in the Pathé Cinema … Continue reading →

Posted in Events/Speaking | Tagged 2016, ARM, azure, azure resource manager, azure stack, bi, cloud, community, datacenter, event, geek, geekmania, hybrid, hyper-v, MSOMS, oms, operations management suite, power, PowerBI, private, public, s2d, sofs, spaces, storage, System Center (without SCSM), windows server, wssc | Leave a comment

Azure Resource Policies – a complete walkthrough

Posted on 28/09/2016 by Marcel Zehner

When companies use Azure to deploy and use resources, they should use strict guidelines to safeguard their subscriptions and keep the quality at a high level. They need to make sure that resources are placed in the correct resource groups, … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure, DevOps | Tagged ARM, azure resource manager, azure resource policy, condition, Control, effect, if, json, then, visual studio | 8 Comments