I am pleased to announce that our team just released the second version of Azure Building Blocks! Here’s a quick description, summarized from our repo.
The Azure Building Blocks project is a command line tool and set of Azure Resource Manager templates designed to simplify deployment of Azure resources. Users author a set of simplified parameters to specify settings for Azure resources, and the command line tool merges these parameters with best practice defaults to produce a set of final parameter files that can be deployed with the Azure Resource Manager templates.
Install the Azure Building Blocks using npm:
npm install -g @mspnp/azure-building-blocks
Full documentation for the command line tool and parameter file schema is available on the Wiki.
Azure Building Blocks parameters to deploy three identical VMs:
“type”: “VirtualMachine”,
“settings”: {
“vmCount”: 3,
“osType”: “windows”,
“namePrefix”: “test”,
“adminPassword”: “testPassw0rd!23”,
“nics”: [{“subnetName”: “web”}],
“virtualNetwork”: {“name”: “ra-vnet”}
}
The command line tool merges best practice defaults to the parameters as follows:
- Enables diagnostics on all VMs
- Deploys the VMs in an availability set
- All VM disks are managed
- OS is latest Windows Server 2016 image
- Public IP created for each VM
Do you want to add a scaleset? Just add one line to the parameters above:
“type”: “VirtualMachine”,
“settings”: {
“vmCount”: 3,
“osType”: “windows”,
“namePrefix”: “test”,
“adminPassword”: “testPassw0rd!23”,
“nics”: [{“subnetName”: “web”}],
“virtualNetwork”: {“name”: “ra-vnet”},
“scaleSetSettings”: {}
}
We are now in the process of updating all our reference architectures to use azbb.
Kaynak
telmo sampaio
Sr. Program Manager | CAT > Patterns & Practices
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