Summary
In this chapter, we built up our knowledge of some of the IaaS services that Azure has to offer. We went into detail about the design considerations when provisioning VMs, including programmatically obtaining image information. We then proceeded to provision a couple of VMs with both the Azure CLI and PowerShell. We covered one of the most fundamental and powerful deployment orchestration tools at your disposal with ARM templates, including the structure and more complex orchestration with multi-tiered templates, as well as nested and linked templates.
The last section of this chapter was all about containers – building container images and running containers from those images. With the fundamentals of containers out of the way, we looked at how ACR can help with the storage and maintenance of container images, followed by running containers within ACI, including the more advanced topic of mounting Azure file shares as volumes for persistent storage of containers...
