AZ-104 Certification Notes

Chapter 6.11 - Azure Blueprints

Azure BluePrints

Azure BluePrints enable quick creation of governed subscriptions. Compose artifacts based on common or organization-based patterns into re-usable blueprints. The service is designed to help with environment setup.

• Blueprints are a declarative way to orchestrate the deployment of carious resource templates and other artifacts such as:

  • Role Assignments
  • Policy Assignments
  • Azure Resource Manager templates (ARM templates)
  • Resource Groups The Azure BluePrints service is backed by the globally distributed Azure Cosmos DB. Blueprint objects are replicated to multiple Azure regions.

• ARM Templates vs Azure Blueprints

  • Nearly everything that you want to include for deployment in Azure Blueprints can be accomplished with an ARM template

• ARM Template

  • ARM templates are storage either locally or in source control
  • There's no active connection or relationship to the ARM template

• Azure Blueprints

  • Relationship between the blueprint definition (what should be deployed) and the blueprint assignment (what was deployed)
  • Can also upgrade several subscriptions at once that are governed by the same blueprint

Azure BluePrints support improved tracking and auditing of deployments.

Practice Quiz

• What are some examples of Azure Blueprint resource templates and artifacts?

  • Role Assignments
  • ARM templates
  • All of the options
  • Resource Groups
  • Policy Assignments

• The Azure Blueprints service is backed by the globally distributed Azure Cosmos DB

  • True
  • False

• Azure Blueprints supports _____

  • improved configuration details to your containers
  • decreased tracking speed and longer auditing of deployments
  • improved tracking and auditing of deployments
  • improved secure-environment-variables

• What are Azure Blueprints?

  • Azure Blueprints enable quick creation of governed subscriptions.