Cloud Native Architectures

Infrastructure as code

As discussed in the previous chapter as well, one of the key cloud automation techniques is to manage infrastructure-as-code, so that effective DevOps practices can be implemented. Like AWS offers Amazon CloudFormation, in a very similar manner, Azure has a service called Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates. Using this service, users can create standardized, repeatable JSON-based templates, which can be used to provision entire application stacks as a single entity to a resource group. The Azure portal provides an interface to directly author/edit the template there, or if users prefer an IDE-based development, then Visual Studio Code also offers extensions using which makes it easy to author ARM templates. The visual ...