ARM Templates

Virtual Machine

Enter the VM folder:

cd virtual-machine

Example creating Virtual Machines using ARM Templates.

You'll need to have either PowerShell Azure Extensions or Azure CLI.

Create the Resource Group

For this example you create the resource group separately (or reuse one you have).

# PowerShell
$resourceGroupName="your-resource-group-name"
$location="eastus2"

Connect-AzAccount
New-AzResourceGroup -Name $resourceGroupName -Location $location

# Azure CLI
resourceGroupName="your-resource-group-name"
location="eastus2"

az login
az group create --name $resourceGroupName --location $location

Deploy the Template

Set the variables:

# PowerShell
$templateFile="azuredeploy.json"

$storageName="st888999arm"
$storageSku="Standard_GRS"
$storageKind="StorageV2"
$vmSize="Standard_A2_v2"

# Azure CLI
templateFile="azuredeploy.json"

storageName="st888999arm"
storageSku="Standard_GRS"
storageKind="StorageV2"
vmSize="Standard_A2_v2"

Trigger the deployment:

# PowerShell
New-AzResourceGroupDeployment `
  -Name DeployLocalTemplate `
  -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName `
  -TemplateFile $templateFile `
  -storageName $storageName `
  -storageSku $storageSku `
  -storageKind $storageKind `
  -vmSize $vmSize `
  -verbose

# Azure CLI
az deployment group create \
  --name DeployLocalTemplate \
  --resource-group $resourceGroupName \
  --template-file $templateFile \
  --parameters \
  storageName=$storageName \
  storageSku=$storageSku \
  storageKind=$storageKind \
  vmSize=$vmSize \
  --verbose

Key Vault

Enter the keyvault directory:

cd keyvault

Directly copied/implemented from the documentation tutorial.

az group create --name ExampleGroup --location eastus2
az keyvault create \
  --name kvarmtemplate999 \
  --resource-group ExampleGroup \
  --location centralus \
  --enabled-for-template-deployment true

az keyvault secret set --vault-name kvarmtemplate999 --name "ExamplePassword" --value "hVFkk965BuUv"

Static

Create the static-parameters.json file from the sample:

# Set the variables manually
cp static-parameters-sample.json static-parameters.json

To deploy it with STATIC id:

ℹ️ The Key Vault resource ID is statically defined in the static-parameters.json` file.

az deployment group create \
  --resource-group ExampleGroup \
  --template-file static-resources.json \
  --parameters static-parameters.json

Dynamic

Create the dynamic-parameters.json file from the sample:

# Set the variables manually
cp dynamic-parameters-sample.json dynamic-parameters.json

To deploy it with DYNAMIC id:

az deployment group create \
  --resource-group ExampleGroup \
  --template-file dynamic-resources.json \
  --parameters dynamic-parameters.json