A set of templates, snippets, and scripts that demonstrate creating and deploying Azure Resource Management Templates in cross-platform environments.

See Authoring Azure Resource Manager Templates for more information on how to author Azure Resource Group Templates.

• Azure PowerShell
• Visual Studio Code

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• Azure CLI
• Visual Studio Code

• Copy the contents of VSCode\armsnippets.json to the clipboard
• In Visual Studio Code, navigate to File > Preferences > User Snippets > JSON.
• Append (paste) the contents of VSCode\armsnippets.json into your user snippets file before the final "}".
• Save and close the user snippets file.

• Launch Visual Studio Code.
• Navigate to File > Open Folder and select either the Bash or PowerShell folder as appropriate.
• Open *VirtualMachineSample.json and put the insertion point after the first "[" following "resources:".
• Type "arm" and you'll see a list of available resource snippets. Choose one and it'll be inserted at the current cursor location. Freshly inserted snippets have tokens you can type in values for, and you can tab through the different tokens.
• As you're editing the properties on objects in your template, IntelliSense dropdowns will appear to suggest available values. You can also select a value and hit Ctrl+Space to see the list of options.
• Descriptions for properties are displayed as you edit the property or mouse over them (if a description is defined in the schema).
• If you have any schema validation issues in your template you'll see squiggles in the editor. You can view the list of errors and warnings by hitting Ctrl+Shift+M or clicking the glyphs in the lower left status bar.

• Open a PowerShell command prompt and run Login-AzureRmAccount to login.
• If the account has access to multiple subscriptions, use Select-AzureRmSubscription -SubscriptionId <Subscription Id> to switch to the one you want use.
• Update the values in the PowerShell\WindowsVirtualMachineSample.parameters.json file.
• Run the PowerShell script: .\PowerShell\Deploy-AzureRmResourceGroup.ps1 -TemplateFile .\PowerShell\WindowsVirtualMachineSample.json -Location <Azure Region>.

• Open a terminal window and run azure login to login.
• If the account has access to multiple subscriptions, use azure account set <subscriptionNameOrId> to switch to the one you want to use.
• Update the values in the Bash/LinuxVirtualMachineSample.parameters.json file.
• Run the bash Script: Bash/azure-rg-deploy.sh -f Bash/LinuxVirtualMachineSample.json -l <Azure Region>.

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