Azure Resource Manager introduces an entirely new way of thinking about your Azure resources. Instead of creating and managing individual resources, you can manage even complex applications such as a multi-tiered cloud services using a resource template. Once you have the resource template defined for your application, you can deploy, manage, monitor, and do reporting with you application as a logical unit. Utilizing this product feature assists in automating the deployment of your infrastructure as code and making a DevOps transformation in your company.
The process of downloading a gallery sample resource group template of a Web site with a SQL database and deploy it to Microsoft Azure using Azure PowerShell is illustrated by David Tesar, a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft, in his walkthrough he in the following issue of our popular weekly newsletter WServerNews:
http://www.wservernews.com/newsletters/archives/deploying-apps-using-microsoft-azure-resource-groups-12021.html
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Mitch Tulloch is a twelve-time recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award and a widely recognized expert on Windows Server and cloud computing technologies. Mitch is also Senior Editor of WServerNews. For more information about him see http://www.mtit.com.
