Building Applications With Azure Resource Manager : Leverage Iac to Vastly Improve the Life Cycle of Your Applications

• Introduces the concepts of infrastructure as code and how to leverage it using Azure Resource Manager
• Teaches how to enable and deploy Azure Resource Manager templates
• Covers the basic core elements of an ARM template to start authoring your templates and building your applications in the cloud
• Dives intocore components such as parameters, variables, functions, dependencies, deployment modes, loops, conditions), enabling nested templates 
• Reveals the built-in services and features in Azure, allowing the debugging process and validation process of the ARM templates
• Discusses “Bicep” the language for ARM templates and the DevOps integration to deploy ARM templates

Who This Book Is For

People who build, install, repair, or maintain the hardware and software associated with computer systems on-premises and who want to learn about the deployment and provisioning process of applications in the Microsoft Cloud using an infrastructure as code approach through Azure Resource Manager. Readers should have an Azure account and be familiar with the main Azure services (storage, compute, networking, management). Basic knowledge of PowerShell is also useful. 

David Rendon is an eight time awarded Microsoft MVP currently working as a Solutions Architect at Kemp Technologies. As an Azure expert and IT professional with more than 15 years of experience, most of his professional experience has been with Microsoft technologies. He conducts private training classes globally (India, South America, USA) that help companies migrate critical applications to the cloud and train their staff to be certified cloud architects. He is passionate about travel, action-packed tech days with peers, and getting down in the trenches of technology road maps. He regularly presents at public IT events such as Microsoft Ignite, Global Azure, local user group events across the US, Europe, and Latin America and is active on Twitter @DaveRndn.