Deploy a Subscription Scope Template in Azure using Go

This Go code deploys a Subscription scope ARM template. This kind of template can create a resource group as well as resources.

Requirements

• Create a service principal and export it to a file using the Azure CLI (this can be done from the Cloud Shell in the portal)

az ad sp create-for-rbac --sdk-auth > azure.auth

• Set the AZURE_AUTH_LOCATION session variable to the sp file

SET AZURE_AUTH_LOCATION=c:\go\azure.auth

or

export AZURE_AUTH_LOCATION=/user/home/go/azure.auth

• Run the application

go run main.go

Reference

This code comes mainly from:

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/go/azure/azure-sdk-go-qs-vm