For the last several months Pete Zerger, Tao Yang, Kevin Greene, Anders Bengtsson and me have been working hard to update Inside OMS book. With the latest changes we are now on version 3 of the book and with new name: Inside Azure Management
Lately you haven’t seen new blog posts by me due to diverting my community time and efforts towards Inside Azure Management book. As now I have finished most of my work on the book I can focus again on blogging.
I very often work closely with the ARM team by giving them feedback and features like Azure Resource Manager template language additions are appearing because of that feedback and I am sure the feedback by many other MVPs, partners and customers. Because of that I never settle for workarounds where you can do something natively within ARM template. I have previously blogged about an issue with deploying Azure Policy definitions via ARM template:
As I still see people confused and not informed about OMS I’ve decided to write this blog post and lay my thoughts around the end of OMS.
If you are not sure what is OMS that is ok and you do not necessary need to know but if you are curious you should check out my blog post What is OMS and a Brief History of It. At Ignite 2018 Microsoft probably announced the last major change related to OMS. This was announced on the Azure blog and at Ignite session. To put it in short Log Analytics (which is in 99% what people refer to when they say OMS) is part of Azure Monitor. In Azure Monitor you might see it being called just Logs for short. But besides that there are actually way more changes some of which happened at Ignite others were happening for quite some time.
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In my blog post Defining Input Parameters For Policy Definitions in ARM Template I’ve showed you how to use deploy policy definitions with parameters via ARM template. I didn’t described completely on why such workaround is needed but I think now it is good time to explain that as well. The topic is a little bit complex so I hope my explanation will help you understand it.
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Azure Policy team has a GitHub repository of Policy definitions examples. Recently I’ve been looking at some of the examples there and I’ve noticed that one of them was not working correctly. Specifically I am referring to Platform Image Policy. Additionally the example contains only the rules. It does not have ARM template for deploying the definition. You will notice also that the policy is pretty static as it does not contain parameters. Because of that based on that sample I would like to create an example on my own and show it to you.
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