This advanced template deploys N Linux VMs ( Ubuntu) and it configures Ansible so you can easily manage all the VMS from the Ansible Controller VM. Additionally, it will execute an ansible Playbook that creates a RAID with all the available data disks. Don't suffer more pain configuring and managing all your VMs , just use Ansible! Ansible is a very powerful masterless configuration management system based on SSH. Do you need 1 or 10 or 100 VMs? It won't make any difference with Ansible playbooks, just apply consistent configuration to all your VMS
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Parameters
| Parameter Name | Description |
|---|---|
| storageAccountType | Storage account Type. Standard_LRS or Premium_LRS |
| vmSize | VM Size, for Premium Storage specify DS VMs. |
| vmSizeDataDisks | Data disks Size in GBs |
| linuxFileSystem | Linux File system |
| serversRole | Servers role, for instance webtier, database.A tag will be created with the provided value |
| serversPurpose | Servers purpose, for instance development, test, pre-production, production. A tag will be created with the provided value |
| numberOfVms | Number of VMs. The template will create N number of identical VMs |
| adminUsername | Admin user name |
| sshStorageAccountName | Private storage account name in which you are storing your ssh certificates |
| sshStorageAccountKey | Private storage account key in which you are storing your ssh certificates |
| dnsLabelPrefix | DNS Label for the Public IP. Must be lowercase. It should match with the following regular expression: ^[a-z][a-z0-9-]{1,61}[a-z0-9]$ or it will raise an error. |
| publicIPType | Public facing IP Type. |
| location | Location for all resources. |
| authenticationType | Type of authentication to use on the Virtual Machine. SSH key is recommended. |
| adminPasswordOrKey | SSH Key or password for the Virtual Machine. SSH key is recommended. |
| _artifactsLocation | The base URI where artifacts required by this template are located. When the template is deployed using the accompanying scripts, a private location in the subscription will be used and this value will be automatically generated. |
| _artifactsLocationSasToken | The sasToken required to access _artifactsLocation. When the template is deployed using the accompanying scripts, a sasToken will be automatically generated. |
Use the template
PowerShell
New-AzResourceGroup -Name <resource-group-name> -Location <resource-group-location> #use this command when you need to create a new resource group for your deploymentInstalling and configuring Azure PowerShell
New-AzResourceGroupDeployment -ResourceGroupName <resource-group-name> -TemplateUri https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates/master/ansible-advancedlinux/azuredeploy.json
Command line
az group create --name <resource-group-name> --location <resource-group-location> #use this command when you need to create a new resource group for your deploymentInstalling and configuring the Azure cross-platform command-line interface
az group deployment create --resource-group <my-resource-group> --template-uri https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates/master/ansible-advancedlinux/azuredeploy.json