IAC – ARM Templates Assignments

Tools and Softwares

• Install Azure CLI
• Install Visual Studio Code
• ARM Tool extension

Hello World – ARM Template

• Create a Hello World – ARM Template which outputs Hello World when you submit the Template
• Learn how to validate the ARM Template Content in Visual Studio Code
• Learn how to validate the ARM Template Content using PowerShell and ADO Pipeline
• Learn how to Preview the changes before submitting to Azure

Create the below 2 ARM Templates

In this section, you will create two different ARM templates for the below.

Create ARM Template for Database module

• Logical SQL Server
• Hard Code the SQL Credentials (Optimize this later using Key Vault)
• SQL Database
• Use a Parameter file for passing all the parameters
• Validate the template
• Execute the template file using Power Shell

Create ARM Template for Web module

• App Service Plan (Windows OS and F1 pricing tier )
• App Service (for .net6 runtime stack)
• The template should output the Outbound IP Addresses
• Use a Parameter file for passing all the parameters
• Validate the template
• Execute the template file using Power Shell

Linked – Combine both the Web and Database Modules

Create a Storage Account

• Create a new Storage Account for storing the Linked Templates
• Create a container named armtemplates
• Upload all the template files and the parameter files into armtemplates container
• Create a main Linked Template in Visual Studio
• Call Database module
• Call Web module
• Ensure that the Database module executes first and the Web Module waits for the Database module to complete it’s execution.
• Retrieve the output of Web module (App Service Outbound IP Addresses) and pass them as inputs to Database module.
• Use a Parameter file for passing all the parameters
• Validate the template
• Execute the template file using Power Shell

Key Vault – Integrate Key-Vault with IAC Templates

• Remove the hard-coded secret in the Database module
• Create the secret in the Key-Vault
• Create a Service Principle
• Provide appropriate permissions to the Service Priciple on Key-Vault using Access Control (IaM)
• Execute the template file using Power Shell

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