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The primary deployment model in azure is ARM or azure resource manager.ARM is responsible for deployment and management of azure resources.

You can deploy resources in azure using azure portal or using the ARM templates.ARM templates are JSON files which describes your resources.This is the way azure uses infrastructure as code.You specify all the resources you want to deploy in these JSON files.It consists of various sections.

The main sections in the ARM template are:

{
"$schema": -->required field ..points to json schema file
"contentVersion": --> version of the deployment(e.g such as 1.0.0.0)
"apiProfile": "" --> version of APIs
"parameters": { } --> configurable values..these are passed to the template
"variables": { } --> repeatable values.Variables are declared once and can be used multiple times in the template.
"functions": [ ]-->user defined functions which are called from the template such as concat()
"resources": [ ] --> resources which you want to deploy 
"outputs": { } --> the output from template execution
}

You can create templates by following the above structure of the template file.For example here is a simple template to deploy a storage account :

{
"type": "Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts",
"apiVersion": "2018-11-01",
"name": "[variables('storageAccountName')]",
"location": "[parameters('location')]",
"sku": {
"name": "Standard_LRS"
},
"kind": "Storage",
"properties": {}
}

Usually you define parameters in a separate template file which is referenced in the main file.

Deploying templates

You can deploy templates using either powershell or azure cli.Following cli command will deploy a template defined in a template file called testgroup in a resource group called testgroup:

az group deployment create --resource-group testgroup--template-file C:\testgroup.json

 

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All the applications require data and data storage mechanism.For example most of the applications store data in the database.It is the same for cloud applications.Cloud applications need some location to store the data.

Azure Storage is a cloud service for storing and retrieving data.Azure Storage Account is required for working with Azure Storage.There are two types of Storage Accounts:

• General Purpose Storage Account provides capability of working with blob,tables,queues and files.
• Blob Storage Account provides capability of working with only blobs.

Cloud applications need the following characteristics for data storage:

• Scalable Data store should be able to store large amounts of data(terrabytes or big data) or small amounts of data
• Elastic It should be able to support amounts of data and requests for data
• Accessibility It can be accessed from any device,from any location and from any type of application

Azure storage supports following types of services:

• BLOB storage is binary large objects.This includes unstructured data or files such as audio or video files.This can be of 3 types:

1. Block
2. Append
3. Page

• Table Storage  For structured data ,this is a NoSQL,Key-Value storage.This provides fast access to data.
• Queue Storage For messaging and communication across different components.
• File Storage Shared storage like a file server,using SMB protocol.

For accessing these services you should have Storage account in your Azure subscription.

For creating a storage account follow the below steps:

1. Login to the azure portal.
2. Click on create a resource.
3. Select storage category from the list
4. Select storage account

A new form consisting of the following values will be displayed:

If you expand the Account kind dropdown you will see the following options:

Depending upon your requirement you can select the appropriate option.

Replication is used to determine the availability of the data as per the requirement.They effect in which data centers your data is stored.

Once the storage account is created you can see the following options in it:

 

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we need to use remote desktop end point to connect to the virtual machine.When you click the virtual machine you have created previously then you will see a screen where there are different buttons for performing various operations on the virtual machine.

Using the connect button you can connect to the virtual machine.

When you click the connect button you will get the following screen

once you click the download RDP file button you will get the following dialog:

click open you will get a below window

if you click connect you will get the following dialog:

next you need to enter credentials:

Once you enter your credentials you can access the virtual machine desktop:

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virtual machine is a computer which exists in the cloud.It doesn’t exist physically so you can not see and access hardware.So they just exist virtually not physically.

To create a virtual machine in azure follow the below steps:

Login to the azure portal

Click the create a resource tab

You can also create virtual machine by clicking the virtual machine tab on the right hand side

In the page that opens click the create virtual machine button:

You can also click Add button on top to create a virtual machine

A new form will open where you need to provide details for the new virtual machine:

there are various types of virtual machines you can create in azure ,you can select the one which you want to create:

you can also select virtual machine sizes by selecting “change size”

Following are some of the details you need to give to create a new virtual machine

1.

Once you click the create+review button you will get the following screen

now you need to just click the create virtual machine button to create the virtual machine.

Now your virtual machine will get deployed and you will get the following message:

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