Deploying Azure Templates with Visual Studio Code

1. Click Home > + Create a resource.

2. Search for "Visual Studio 2019 Community (latest release) on Windows 2019 Server (x64)".

3. Click Create.

4. Select the provided Resource Group.

5. Enter Virtual machine name "VS-Studio-01".

6. For Region, select (US) West US.

7. For Availability Options, No infrastructure redundancy required.

8. For Azure Spot Instance, No.

9. For Size, Change Size, then select D3_v3.

10. For Administrator Account, enter "Admin1234567" without the quotes for Username and Password.

11. For Public inbound ports, Allow selected ports.

12. Select the inbound ports RDP (3389).

13. For Already have a Windows Server License?, select No.

14. Click Next: Disks.

15. Click Create and attach a new disk.

16. Accept the defaults and click OK.

17. Click Review and Create and then Create.

1. Connect to VS-Studio-01 via RDP. Log in with Admin1234567 as the username and password.

2. Open Visual Studio Code.

3. Open Marketplace and install Azure CLI Tools.

4. Install Azure Powershell Tools.

5. Open the following website and click Install: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=msazurermtools.azurerm-vscode-tools

Note: All plugins are from Microsoft.

1. Open the 101-vm-simple-linux template from GitHub.

2. Open raw view, then copy all.

3. In Visual Studio Code, create a new local JSON file in VS Code called azuredeployment.json.

4. Paste the copied template contents into azuredeployment.json.

5. Create a file azuredeployment.parameters.json.

6. Paste the template parameters from the RAW view.

7. Save the parmeters file azuredeployment.parameters.json.

8. Find line 27, make sure the following shows:

   "defaultValue": "password",
   

9. Add a comma after the brackets underneath securityRules.

10. Select all of the information under securityRules, including the brackets (but not the comma). Copy it and paste it on the line after the comma in the previous step.

11. Change the following fields.

    • "name": "SSL",
    • "priority": 1001,
    • "destinationPortRange": "443"

12. Save the tenplate azuredeployment.json.

Click the [>_] Icon on the blue Azure bar.

1. Click PowerShell, then Show advanced settings.
2. Change Cloud Shell Region to West US.
3. Set Resource group to Use existing.
4. Use build a unique Storage account and File share by using the following:
   • lalab446mmddyyyy (use the 8-digit date or mmddyyyy, e.g. la44601212020)
5. Click Create Storage.

If successful, you should see something similar to:

Your cloud drive has been created in:
    
Subscription Id: 4cedc5dd-e3ad-468d-bf66-32e31bdb9148
Resource group:  212-e743b5-deploying-azure-templates-with-cloud-shell-6gd
Storage account: la44601212020
File share:      la44601212020

Initializing your account for Cloud Shell...
Requesting a Cloud Shell.Succeeded.
Connecting terminal...

Welcome to Azure Cloud Shell

Type "az" to use Azure CLI
Type "help" to learn about Cloud Shell
        
linuxacademy@Azure:~$

Select the unique Storage account created with the following: lalab446mmddyyyy

1. Under Settings in the left-hand menu, click Configuration.
2. Set Allow Blob public access to Enabled.
3. Under Blob service in the left-hand menu, click Containers.
4. Click + Container to add a new container.
5. Enter "templates" into the Name box.
6. Set Public access level to Blob (anonymous read access for blobs only).
7. Click Create.
8. Double-click the templates folder.
9. Upload both azuredeployment and azuredeployment.parameters.
10. Double-click the link for azuredeployment.json.
11. Copy the URL to the clipboard.

1. In the Cloud Shell window, run the following command:

   Get-AzResourceGroup
   

   This should return a response similar to the following:

    PS Azure:\> Get-AzResourceGroup
   
       ResourceGroupName : 210-c1eed6-deploying-azure-templates-with-visual-studio-xti
        Location          : westus
    Tags              :
    ResourceId        : /subscriptions/4cedc5dd-e3ad-468d-bf66-32e31bdb9148/resourceGroups/210-c1eed6-deploying-azure-templates-with-visual-studio-xti 
   

2. Create the deployment. Remember to replace the RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME and the URL_COPIED_IN_THE_PREVIOUS_TASK with the appropriate values.

   az group deployment create -g RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME --template-uri URL_COPIED_IN_THE_PREVIOUS_TASK
   

If successful, we will get a success message.

1. Once the deployment is complete, click All resources in the Azure portal.
2. Click simpleLinuxVM.
3. Under Settings, click Networking.
4. Verify the existence of the SSL rule.