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Environment Overview

Environments are the heart of the VDC toolkit. Each environment is a set of parameter and orchestration files that deploy modules.

The modules consist of full deployments for different Azure resources. Ex. Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, Key Vault etc.

  • Modules can have RBAC policies
  • Azure policies
  • Configuration scripts
  • Tests to ensure the module is working as expected

Think of the VDC toolkit as a nested ARM template deployment. You can specify any module you would like to deploy in the Orchestration.json file under each environemnt. Then add parameters for the module under the parameters.json file under the specificed enviornment you are deploying.

If you want to disable or "not deploy" certain resources in the orchestration file without deleting them. Please refer to folder replication documentation.

If you are adding additional resources to the environment orchestration file. Consider the following example.

Storage Account example

You wish to add an additional storage account to the MS-VDI environment.

For this example we would utilize the Storage Account Module. This module has a deploy.json file which deploys the storage account ARM template.

If we look at the deploy.json file we can see that it has several parameters needed.

  1. "storageAccountName"
    • Required
  2. "location"
    • Default is the resource group location
  3. "storageAccountKind"
    • Default is StorageV2 ETC.

Parameters.json

You can either accept the default values OR in the parameters.json file under MS-VDI parameter.json specify the values you wish to have for the storage account. Example below Picture 1.

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Orchestration.json

Then in the Orchestration.json file configure it with references to the parameters.json file. You can also override the parameters.

You must specify the "ModuleDefinitionName" (Yellow arrow in Picture 2) - This must match the module folder name exactly.

The Deployment section will be where you reference the parameters for the deploy.json file in the modules section

  • (2nd Red arrow in Picture 2)

The Policies section is where you would set an Azure Policy for storage accounts.

  • (1st red arrow in Picture 2)

If RBAC roles needed to be added you would add this section as well.