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In our previous article Azure Resource Manager Templates – Securing your Parameters with KeyVault we have used KeyVault to safely store production secrets. In large teams you may have multiple people deploying resources but don't want to give them access to the actual secrets inside the vault. You can achieve this by creating a custom role that … Continue reading Azure Key Vault – Add Custom Role for Deployment Access Only
Certificates have various uses in AppServices. The most obvious one is to enable SSL for your application. Another use it to authenticate towards Azure KeyVault to retrieve confidential values. In this post we will be uploading a certificate to KeyVault. Then we will deploy it to an AppService with Azure Resource Manager. Finally we will … Continue reading Azure Resource Manager Templates – Using Certificates from KeyVault in AppServices
Storing secret information such as parameters in resource template files is not recommended. Often ARM templates are checked into source control. Now everyone has access to your confidential information. Using parameters that are not checked into source control is one option. Azure offers a better option through it's secure data store KeyVault. Think of it … Continue reading Azure Resource Manager Templates – Securing your Parameters with KeyVault
This article will show you how to deploy a basic website with a database to Azure. It will use Resource Manager templates. Checkout the article on Resource Manager basics if you are unfamiliar. We start with the familiar empty template and set the scontentVersion property. Add any of the following snippets to the resources property. … Continue reading Azure Resource Manager Templates – Deploying a Website with a Database
In our introduction to Azure Resource Manager Templates we wrote a template from scratch. Whenever we used a name for a resource we had to use the full name. Imagine having to change this value. Sure you could find and replace all instance, but we all know how this could go wrong. For a basic introduction … Continue reading Azure Resource Manager Templates – Working with variables, parameters, functions and loops.
Azure has moved towards the resource manager (ARM) model for all new versions. Both the new portal and AzureRM PowerShell use ARM. The templates are based on JSON (Javascript Object Notation) and allow for incremental and idempotent deployments, so when an error occurs, you can fix and re-deploy without affecting existing resources. Using a simple … Continue reading Azure Resource Manager Templates 101
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