Developers and administrators have many ways to deploy resources to Microsoft Azure. But when deploying many resources at once that consist of a full "stack" of resources, Azure Resource Manager (ARM) ...

Michael Levan is an Azure and DevOps trainer at CBT Nuggets and the founder and chief engineer of CloudDev.Engineering. Azure Resource Manager templates are text files created in the JavaScript Object ...

It's widely known that PowerShell can deploy Microsoft Azure ARM templates using the New-AzResourceGroupDeployment cmdlet, but it's not so common to use PowerShell to create and modify existing ARM ...

Michael Levan is an Azure and DevOps trainer at CBT Nuggets and the founder and chief engineer of CloudDev.Engineering. Follow him on Twitter @TheNJDevOpsGuy. Azure Resource Manager templates are text ...

There are lots of ways to create MSSQL databases via PowerShell. We could invoke a T-SQL query using the CREATE DATABASE term, we could write some code to use the [Create() method with SMO] or, if ...

Templates written in ARM can be loaded into the Azure Stack portal, allowing you to automate builds and deployment. In a hands-on session in Redmond recently, Microsoft demonstrated taking an Azure ...

In the cloud-native world, infrastructure is code, often written using declarative languages such as YAML. Instead of building virtual machines and networking by clicking in Web forms, you put ...