After we focused on using the Azure Stack portal GUI and the Marketplace to upload and deploy images we will focus on Azure Resource Manager templates and PowerShell to create and deploy a virtual machine manager image.
We will go into more details starting with basic steps like creating a storage account and finish with a virtual machine template.
Azure Resource Manager template, provides declarative statements to deploy objects from the resource providers available in Azure Stack. This could be a network, storage, or in regards to compute something like a (multi-service) IaaS and/or PaaS services. Focusing on an IaaS service means, you define the deployment and configuration settings for your virtual machine or application. Therefore, each template will contain some combination of the following components:
- Resource Provider (mandatory)
- Template functions like parameters, variables to define resources
- Template functions like (VM) extensions for in guest OS or application...