How to create a specific Dev/Test Lab environment using ARM Template?

Question

I am trying to automate the creation of Dev/Test Lab environments using ARM Templates. Currently my environments options are stored in GitHub and lets say I have a specific environment called "Env1" that deploys PaaS services.

I wanted to use ARM Templates to trigger the creation of the environment called "Env1" passing all the required parameters.

How can I achieve this? I was only able to find examples in Powershell.

Thank you

Answer 1

ARM Templates support passing in parameters either at the command line, or using a parameters file, you can see how to create a parameters file here. You can then create a separate parameters file for each environment and pass in the appropriate file name at the time you deploy.

Answer 2

Hello @Luis Simoes - Thanks for reaching out.

On top of what @Sam Cogan has provided, Automation is definitely possible using the API's and ARM templates. We might not have custom scripts available to do so.

Did you take a look at these docs - Create-lab-windows-vm-template

documentation on REST API's - DevTestLab

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