Building infrastructure using Azure Resource Manager
Cloud APIs are bifurcated into two categories, the management plane and the data plane. The management plane is an API that controls the creation, deletion, and mutation of infrastructure. The data plane is an API exposed by provisioned infrastructure.
For example, the management plane would be used to create a SQL database. The data plane for the SQL database resource would be the SQL protocol for manipulating data and structure within the database.
The management plane is serviced by the cloud resource API, and the data plane is serviced by the API exposed by the provisioned service.
In this section, we will learn how to use the Azure SDK for Go to provision infrastructure in Azure. We will learn how to create and destroy resource groups, virtual networks, subnets, public IPs, virtual machines, and databases. The goal of this section is to build awareness of the Azure Go SDK and how to interact with ARM.
