Deployment automation with ARM templates and Custom Data
In this video I am showing you how to pass-in deployment commands using Custom Data in an Microsoft Azure ARM template.
00:00 Introduction
00:48 Working from a "known good configuration"
01:24 Working from the Azure Quickstart templates library
01:50 Deploying from Templates Specs
03:44 Examining Templates Specs features
03:39 Editing in VS Code
05:01 A starting point for Custom Data (all in one line!)
05:58 CustomData advancement I (externalizing to github)
08:46 CustomData advancement II (files from Azure storage)
11:18 Demonstration (running the deployment)
12:42 Summary and closing remarks
For more information on this topic, see:
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https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/res...
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https://safenet.readthedocs.io/projec...
Note: A good way of thinking about 'custom data' is to equate it with 'user data' as part of Cloud-Init ('yes' Microsoft is adding confusion by giving this capability a new name ...and by not being very up front about it).
