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Cloud Provisioning and Governance Recipes

Multi-cloud recipes provide ready content for typical cloud deployment and common operations scenarios across cloud platforms.

Recipes for Enterprise Workloads and Day-2 Operations

Cloud Provisioning and Governance recipes are ready-to-use catalog items built from sample CFT and ARM templates to support real-world cloud deployment use-cases. These recipes are ready for use in Proof of Concept as well as non-production environments. For production environments, ensure that the recipes are well tested and internally evaluated. You can avail the recipes, as update sets, to be downloaded from the SHARE in the developer portal under the Cloud Provisioning Recipes category.

List of Update Sets

NameDescription
Catalog Items for Amazon Web Service
CFT Single Linux VMCatalog Item for a single Linux Virtual Machine using CFT.
CFT Single Windows VMCatalog Item for a single Windows Virtual Machine using CFT.
CFT Linux VM with Multiple NICsCatalog Item for a Linux Virtual Machine with multiple network interfaces using CFT.
CFT Linux VM with LB and StorageCatalog Item for a Linux Virtual Machine with load balancing and storage using CFT.
CFT Linux VM with Multi VM Multi DiskCloud Formation Template for a Linux VM with multiple VMs and multiple virtual disk interfaces.
CFT Linux Install ApacheCatalog Item to install an Apache server on a Linux VM using CFT.
CFT Simple VM with Approval PolicyCatalog Item for a simple VM with an approval policy, using CFT.
CFT Windows VM Multi Disk and LBCatalog Item for a Windows VM with multiple virtual disk interfaces and load balancing, using CFT.
Catalog Items for Azure
ARM Windows VM with Multi NICsCatalog Item for a Windows VM with multiple network interfaces using ARM template.
ARM Windows Single VM Multi DiskCatalog Item for a single VM with multiple virtual disk interfaces, using ARM template.
ARM Windows Stack Multi DiskCatalog Item for a Windows stack with multiple virtual disk interfaces, using ARM template.
ARM Windows Stack Multi NICCatalog Item for a Windows Stack VM with multiple network interfaces, using ARM template.
ARM Linux VM Multi NIC Multi DiskCatalog Item for a Linux VM with multiple virtual disk and network interfaces, using ARM template.
ARM Linux VM Install ApacheCatalog Item to install an Apache server on a Linux VM, using ARM template.
ARM Linux VM Install MySQLCatalog Item to install a MySQL server on a Linux VM, using ARM template.
ARM WebApp MySQLCatalog Item to build a Web app with Azure database for MySQL, using ARM template.
ARM VNET Multi Subnet with Approval PolicyCatalog Item for multi subnet VNET with approval policy, using ARM template.
ARM VNIC Multi Subnet with Naming PolicyCatalog Item for multi subnet VNIC with a naming policy, using ARM template.

Day 2 Operations for AWS VM

An update set is provided for some of the important Day 2 operations on AWS cloud provider. Broadly, Day 2 operations are the type of operations that are executed on workloads after they are provisioned. Day 2 operations can include complex life-cycle processes or simple utilities. In this update set, you have access to the following set of operations:

NameDescription
AttachVolumeAttaches and exposes an Amazon \(Elastic Block Store\) EBS volume to the instance with the specified device name.
CreateSnapshot\[AWS datacenter level discovery operation\]Creates a snapshot of your Amazon \(Elastic Block Store\) EBS volume.
DescribeSnapshotsDescribes the specified Amazon \(Elastic Block Store\) EBS snapshots available to you or all EBS snapshots available to you.
DetachVolumeDetaches an EBS volume from an instance.
ModifyInstanceAttribute \[Only InstanceType\]Modify the specified attribute of the specified instance.
ModifyVolume \[Only Size\]Modify parameters of an existing Amazon \(Elastic Block Store\) EBS volume.
Day 2 Operations for AWS VM – Set 1Catalog Item for Day 2 operations for an AWS VM, Set 1.