Microsoft Azure Blueprints

A user can build and change artifacts (such as policies and ARM templates), assign them to environments, and version them using the method offered by Azure Blueprints. This makes it simple to manage versions, store these artifacts, and link them to environments. To put it another way, it’s a group of governance and resource services that let the subscriber repeat deployments to establish standards.

• Artifacts: A blueprint contains groups of resource and governance services that are sometimes referred to as artifacts, such as:- 
  1. Role Assignments
  2.  Policy Assignments
  3. ARM or Azure Resource Manager templates
  4. Resource Groups
      
• Blueprint Definition Location: The blueprint definition location is a location where the blueprint is saved. Based on the Contributor accessed by the user, blueprints can be saved to a management group or subscription. For example, if the location is a management group, the blueprint can be assigned to any of that management group’s child subscriptions.
   
• Blueprint Parameters: Parameters can be passed to either a policy or an ARM template via blueprints. When adding either artifact to a blueprint, the user chooses whether to supply a fixed value for each blueprint assignment or to allow each blueprint assignment to provide a value at the moment of assignment. This adaptability gives the user the choice of defining a fixed value for all uses of the blueprint or allowing the decision to be made at the moment of assignment.
   
• Blueprint Publishing: When the blueprint is ready to be allocated, it must be published. Publishing involves defining a Version string (letters, digits, and hyphens with a maximum length of 20 characters) as well as optional Change notes. The Version distinguishes it from future updates to the same blueprint and permits each version to be allocated. Because of this versioning, several versions of the same blueprint can be assigned to the same subscription.
   
• Blueprint Assignment: Each Published Version of a blueprint can be assigned to an existing management group or subscription with a maximum name length of 90 characters. The blueprint in the portal sets the Version to the most recently published version. If there are any artifact or blueprint parameters, they are defined during the assignment process.

Pre-requisite: Azure – Pre-built Azure VMs

Azure Blueprint is a service offered by Microsoft that enables a subscriber to thoroughly control and manage the working environment. It makes environmental creation and destruction simple. additionally utilizing APM templates Automation makes it much simpler to apply compliance policies to resources and give and revoke access permissions.

Here in this article, we will discuss Azure Blueprints, and how it works.