Infrastructure as Code and Azure DevOps Step by Step Tutorial

We have created four Infrastructure as Code with Azure DevOps tutorial videos to help people get started on our YouTube channel.  The idea was to help people avoid common pitfalls and so we can reference them ourselves both internally and for our customers.

Our video course link is here:
Infrastructure as Code and Azure DevOps Tutorial Playlist

Infrastructure As Code Toolset – VS Code and Azure DevOps.

Part 1 – Setup of Visual Studio Code and setup of the project in Azure DevOps Tutorial

• Setup Azure Modules
  • Install-Module -Name Az -AllowClobber -Scope AllUsers -Confirm -force
• Install Visual Studio Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/
• Install Git for Windows: https://gitforwindows.org/
• Create project in Azure DevOps

Part 2 – Infrastructure as Code with ARM Templates Tutorial

• Quick start Gallery https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/templates/
• ARM Template Documentation https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/templates/
• Template functions https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/templates/template-functions

Part 3 – Securing passwords and secrets using Azure Key Vault

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/templates/key-vault-parameter?tabs=azure-cli

Part 4 – Setting up Service connections, assigning the right permissions and deploying using Azure DevOps

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/library/service-endpoints?view=azure-devops&tabs=yaml
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/release/?view=azure-devops

There are many other ways to deploy to Azure such as PowerShell, Terraform and CLI and we may cover some of these other options in the future. Let us know if you found this useful.