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Sample Azure Resource Manager (ARM) best practice templates

The ARM templates provided as defaults through the Azure portal for various resources are not particularly extensible. And in some few cases, the defaults may not pass security checks and comply with basic policies.

The following links take you to my GitHub site for:

  • ARM templates

    • Deployment template
    • Parameter template

  • PowerShell script to test the ARM template deployment

    • Including .EXAMPLE code that you can copy and paste in PowerShell to test the template deployment

  • Azure DevOps pipeline script to deploy a site

Features

ARM Templates

  • Extensible
  • Incorporate best practices, such as Role Based Access Control, Private Endpoints, Hub-Spoke network architecture, managed identities, security permissions
  • Both template and parameters

PowerShell

  • Test individual templates and combination of templates

Azure DevOps Pipeline

  • End to end DevOps Pipeline that ties it all together

Deploy ARM templates using Azure DevOps Pipeline

You can integrate Azure Resource Manager templates (ARM templates) with Azure Pipelines for continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD). In this article, you learn two more advanced ways to deploy templates with Azure Pipelines.

The example pipelines shown in these templates demonstrate to to add task that runs an Azure PowerShell script. This option has the advantage of providing consistency throughout the development life cycle because you can use the same script that you used when running local tests. Your script deploys the template but can also perform other operations such as getting values to use as parameters.

A few examples show how to add tasks to copy and deploy tasks. This option offers a convenient alternative to the project script.

Supported Kubernetes architecture

The following diagram illustrates a hybrid deployment where Kubernetes is a central deployment for many services.

architecture

Sample templates and scripts

From this GitHub:

More examples

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References