Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

I am sure you have noticed by now that some projects have a weird infra/ directoy with some *.json files and a README.md.

Currently, we are using ARM templates with plans to migrate to Terraform with the AzAPI Terraform provider.

Schemas

The schemas used are the following:

• azuredeploy.json: schemas/2019-04-01/deploymentTemplate.json
• parameters.**.json: schemas/2019-04-01/deploymentParameters.json

Notice we use the 2019-04-01 schema for both.

Structure

- <Project-name>/
  |- <Project-name>.csproj
  |- infra/
  | |- azuredeploy.json
  | |- parameters.dev.json
  | |- parameters.prod.json
  | |- ... <immediate dependencies>
  |- ... <the project's source code>

Parameters

Regarding the parameters' files, the naming convention is simple:

parameters.(<project-name>.)<environment>.json

E.g.

• parameters.dev.json
• parameters.talos.dev.json

Usage

• Make sure you are logged in to the correct tenant/subscription.

  az login

• Go to the project's infra/ directory inside of a terminal.

  cd <Project's path>

• Deploy the script.

  az deployment group create --resource-group <resource-group> --template-file infra/azuredeploy.json --parameters 'infra/parameters.<environment>.json'