Minimum Viable Template: Place a VM in an Availability Set

This post is part of a series of posts showing how to create a “minimum viable ARM template” and how to modify it to suit various scenarios. To see the full list of posts in this series, see this page: https://negatblog.wordpress.com/minimum-viable-arm-templates/. Azure has a concept of an “availability set”: all VMs in an availability set get……

Minimum Viable Template: VM With SSH Auth

This post is part of a series of posts showing how to create a “minimum viable ARM template” and how to modify it to suit various scenarios. To see the full list of posts in this series, see this page: https://negatblog.wordpress.com/minimum-viable-arm-templates/. We want to modify our VM template to use ssh auth instead of password auth.……

Minimum Viable Templates: Put a VM in an Availability Zone

This post is part of a series of posts showing how to create a “minimum viable ARM template” and how to modify it to suit various scenarios. To see the full list of posts in this series, see this page: https://negatblog.wordpress.com/minimum-viable-arm-templates/. Availability Zones allow us to spread our resources across different physical locations within a……

Minimum Viable Template: Add Data Disks to a VM

This post is part of a series of posts showing how to create a “minimum viable ARM template” and how to modify it to suit various scenarios. To see the full list of posts in this series, see this page: https://negatblog.wordpress.com/minimum-viable-arm-templates/. In data-intensive scenarios, we may need more disks attached to our virtual machines. Let’s……

Minimum Viable Template: Add a Network Security Group

This post is part of a series of posts showing how to create a “minimum viable ARM template” and how to modify it to suit various scenarios. To see the full list of posts in this series, see this page: https://negatblog.wordpress.com/minimum-viable-arm-templates/. For added security, we want to lock down our minimum viable VM to limit……

Minimum Viable ARM Template

ARM Templates are a great way to deploy resources on Azure, but it can be difficult to know how to modify an ARM template to match a specific scenario. In this series of posts, we will define a “minimum viable ARM template” then incrementally add features over time. This way, we can easily see how……