Azure Resource Manager QuickStart Templates

Contributing guide

This is a repo that contains all the currently available Azure Resource Manager templates contributed by the community. We'll soon allow a way for these templates to be indexed on Azure.com and be discoverable from there.

To make sure your template is added to Azure.com index, please follow these guidelines. Any templates that are out of compliance will be added to the blacklist.json file and not be indexed on Azure.com

1. Every template must be contained in its own folder. Name this folder something that describes what your template does
2. The template file must be named azuredeploy.json
3. The template folder must host the scripts that are needed for successful template execution
4. The template folder must contain a metadata.json file to allow the template to be indexed on Azure.com

• Guidelines on the metadata file below

5. Every parameter in the template must have the description specified using the metadata property. See the starter template is provided here on how to do this
6. OPTIONAL: The folder may contain a Readme.md file for any additional information about the template

metadata.json file

Here are the required parameters for a valid metadata.json file

To be more consistent with the Visual Studio and Gallery experience we're updating the metadata.json file structure. The new structure looks like below

{
  "itemDisplayName": "",
  "description": "",
  "summary": "",
  "githubUsername": "",
  "dateUpdated": "<e.g. 2015-12-20>"
}

The metadata.json file will be validated using these rules

itemDisplayName

• Cannot be more than 60 characters

description

• Cannot be more than 1000 characters
• Cannot contain HTML

summary

• Cannot be more than 200 characters

githubUsername

• Username must be the same as the username of the author submitting the Pull Request

dateUpdated

• Must be in yyyy-mm-dd format.
• The date must not be in the future to the date of the pull request

Starter template

A starter template is provided here for you to follow

101 templates

These are simple example templates with single actions for common requirements.

Type	#	Deploy to Azure	Author	Template Name	Description
101	1		mahthi	Deploy an Availability Set	This template allows you to create an Availability Set in your subscription.
101	2		mahthi	Deploy a Load Balancer with an Inbound NAT Rule	This template allows you to create a load balancer with NAT rule in your subscription.
101	3		mahthi	Deploy a Virtual Network	This template allows you to deploy a Virtual Network.
101	4		mahthi	Deploy a Simple Virtual Machine from an Image	This template allows you to deploy a Simple Virtual Machines from an Image.
101	5		mahthi	Create a Network Interface in a Virtual Network and associate it with a Public IP	This template creates a simple Network Interface in a Virtual Network and attaches a Public IP Address to it.
101	6		mahthi	Deploy a Virtual Machine with Custom Data	This template allows you to deploy a Virtual Machines by passing Custom Data to the VM.
101	7		singhkay	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! Create a key Vault	This template creates a Key Vault
101	8		kenazk	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! Windows VM with Empty Data Disk	This template creates a Windows VM with a new empty data disk.
101	9		mahthi	Deploy a Virtual Machine from a User Image	This template allows you to create a Virtual Machines from a User image. Prerequisite - The Storage Account with the User Image VHD should already exist in the same resource group.
101	10		manavis	Assign RBAC BuiltInRoles to an Existing Resource Group	This template assigns Owner, Reader or Contributor access to an existing resource group.
101	11		mahthi	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! Create Linux Virtual Machine and configure SSH Key	This template creates a Linux Virtual Machine and configures SSH Keys. Note: This template will be slightly modified in the coming weeks to allow SSH Keys to be passed in the standard PEM format
101	12		kenazk	Create an Availability Set with 3 FDs configured	This template snippet creates an Availability Set with 3 FDs
101	13		singhkay	Create a network Security Group	This template creates a Network Security Group
101	14		kenazk	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! Create a VM from a Windows Image with 4 Empty Data Disks	Create a VM from a Windows Image with 4 Empty Data Disks
101	15		kenazk	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! Linux VM with Empty Data Disk	This template creates a Linux VM with a new empty data disk.
101	16		ggalow	Create a public IP with DNS Name	Create a public IP with DNS Name
101	17		ManaviS	RBAC - Grant Built In Role Access for an existing VM in a Resource Group	RBAC - Grant Built In Role Access for an existing VM in a Resource Group

201 templates

These are more complex example templates with single actions for more advanced requirements.

Type	#	Deploy to Azure	Author	Template Name	Description
201	1		singhkay	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! Discover a VMs Private IP Dynamically	This templates discovers a private ip of another VM dynamically
201	2		mahthi	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! Deploy 2 Windows VMs under Availability Set with NAT Rules through Load balancer	This template allows you to create 2 Windows Virtual Machines in an Availability Set and configure NAT rules through a load balancer. We also use the resource loops capability to create the network interfaces and virtual machines
201	3		ypitsch	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! Deploy 2 Windows VMs under a load balancer and configure a LB rule	This template allows you to create 2 Windows Virtual Machines in an under a Load Balancer, configure LB rules for load balancing and NAT rules for RDP Access to each VM. We also use the resource loops capability to create the network interfaces and virtual machines.
201	4		singhkay	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! Create a VM referencing a VNET in a different Resource Group	This template creates a VM in a VNET which is in a different Resource Group. You'll need to have the VNET created before running this template and pass the VNET name and its resource group name as input to this parameter.
201	5		singhkay	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! Create a VM and install a certificate referenced from an Azure Key Vault	This template creates a VM and installs a certificate from the Azure Keyvault on the Virtual Machine. The template expects the Keyvault Name and the certificate URL of the certificate in KeyVault.
201	6		mahthi	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! Execute Dependent script extensions to Configure and Install Mongo DB on a Ubuntu Virtual Machine	This template deploys Configures and Installs Mongo DB on a Ubuntu Virtual Machine in two separate scripts. This template is a sample that showcases how to express dependencies between two scripts running on the same virtual machine.
201	7		singhkay	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! Create 2 VMs in a Availability Set with 2 FDs without resource loops	This template allows you to create 2 VMs in an Availabiltiy Set with 2 Fault Domains without resource loops
201	8		singhkay	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! Create a VM from a specialized VHD disk	This template creates a VM from a specialized VHD
201	9		narayan	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! Create a virtual Network with DMZ Subnet	Virtual Network with DMZ Subnet
201	10		ypitsch	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! 2 VMs in a VNET with an Internal Load Balancer and Load Balancer rules	2 VMs in a VNET with an Internal Load Balancer and Load Balancer rules
201	11		MJZawacki	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! Generate VM Instances and pass all input parameters via custom data	Generate VM Instances and pass all input parameters via custom data
201	12		ManaviS	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! RBAC - Grant Built In Role Access for multiple existing VMs in a Resource Group	RBAC - Grant Built In Role Access for multiple existing VMs in a Resource Group

General Workloads

You can deploy the template to Azure by clicking the "Deploy to Azure" button below next to each template.

Type	#	Deploy to Azure	Author	Template Name	Description
APP	1		singhkay	VM DSC Extension IIS Server	This template allows you to deploy a VM with with a DSC extension that sets up an IIS server
DEV	2		coreysa	Deploy from DockerHub	This template allows you to deploy a Docker container from DockerHub using Compose.
DEV	3		coreysa	Deploy Ubuntu Azure Dev VM	This template deploys an Ubuntu VM with the Azure Dev tools installed, which includes node. This executes a bash script pulled from GitHub.
DEV	4		coreysa	Deploy from DockerHub (Simple Template)	This template allows you to deploy a Docker container from DockerHub using Compose with a very small amount of parameters (simple).
DEV	5		drewm3	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! Chocolatey VM	This template allows you to create a VM with an application from Chocolatey.org installed.
DEV	6		singhkay	!!!BROKEN LINK!!!VM with Chef extension	This template allows you to deploy a windows VM with Chef extension and run any recipe
201	7		coreysa	Deploy an Ubuntu VM with an additional sudo user	The purpose of this script is to show how to execute a custom script with parameters passed throguh the template that will create an additional user with sudo access. The value of the sample is to show how to pass template parameter based input into a bash Linux script.
APP	8		paigeliu	Deploy a Percona XtraDB Cluster on CentOS or Ubuntu	This template deploys a 3-node high availability MySQL Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 on CentOS 6.5 or Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
DEV	9		gbowerman	Deploy LAMP app on Ubuntu	This template uses the Azure Linux CustomScript extension to deploy a LAMP application by creating an Ubuntu VM, doing a silent install of MySQL, Apache and PHP, then creating a simple PHP script.
DEV	10		snallami	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! VM-Ubuntu - Tomcat and Open JDK installation	This template allows you to create a Ubuntu VM with OpenJDK and Tomcat.
201	11		mahthi	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! Deploy 'N' Virtual Machines in a Single Click	This template allows you to deploy 'n' virtual machines in a Single Click.
DEV	12		mahthi	Install Mongo DB on CentOS Virtual Machine	This template deploys Mongo DB on CentOS Virtual Machine.
DEV	13		mahthi	Install Mongo DB on Ubuntu Virtual Machine	This template deploys Mongo DB on Ubuntu Virtual Machine.
DEV	14		singhkay	Create a Zookeeper cluster	This template deploys a 3-node Zookeeper cluster on Ubuntu Virtual Machines.
DEV	15		gbowerman	Deploy an Apache webserver on Ubuntu	This template uses the Azure Linux CustomScript extension to deploy an Apache web server. The deployment template creates an Ubuntu VM, installs Apache2 and creates a demo HTML file.
DEV	16		kundanap	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! Bootstrap a Ubuntu VM with Chef Agent	This templates provisions a Ubuntu VM and bootstraps Chef Client on it.
201	17		mahthi	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! Deploy Virtual Machines across 5 regions using Template Linking	This template showcases the 'Template Linking' capability in Azure Resource Manager. This template deploys 'n' Virtual Machines across 5 regions in parallel.
101	18		singhkay	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! Windows VM with custom script extension	This template creates a VM and runs a PowerShell script using the custom script extension.
101	19		kenazk	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! Windows VM with Azure Diagnostics Extension	This template creates a VM and deploys the Azure Diagnostics Agent to emit performance metrics from within the VM to a Table in the Storage Account specified.
DEV	20		kundanap	Bootstrap a Ubuntu VM with Chef Agent with Json paramters	This templates provisions a Ubuntu VM and bootstraps Chef Client on it by taking only json parameters.
DEV	21		tomconte	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! Deploy a single-VM WordPress to Azure	This template deploys a complete LAMP stack, then installs and initializes WordPress.Once the deployment is finished, you need to go to http://fqdn.of.your.vm/wordpress/ to finish the configuration, create an account, and get started with WordPress.
APP	22		simongdavies	This template creates an Azure VM with AD	This template creates a new Azure VM, with a public IP address, load balancer and VNet, it configures the VM to be an AD DC for a new Forest.
DEV	23		coreysa	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! Deploy Docker Containers on Virtual Machines across 5 regions using Loops & Template Linking	This template allows you to create 'N' number of Virtual Machines based on the 'numberOfInstances' parameter specified during the template deployment and deploys 2 docker containers [nginx & redis] on each VM.
201	24		mahthi	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! Deploy 'n' Virtual Machines from a user image using Resource Loops	This template allows you to create 'N' number of Virtual Machines from a User image based on the 'numberOfInstances' parameter specified during the template deployment.
201	25		mahthi	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! Deploy 'n' Virtual Machines from a user image across 3 storage accounts in the same region	This template allows you to create VMs from User image across 3 Storage accounts in the same region. You can also chose to specify the number of Virtual Machines that you want to spin up per storage accounts where the user image is placed [Recommended number is 40]. There are some critical pre-requisties for this template, please refer to the readme in the template folder for additional details.
DEV	26		arsenvlad	Deploy 'n' Ubuntu VMs with memcached service and one Apache test VM	This template allows you to create multiple (based on the 'numberOfMemcachedInstances' parameter) Ubuntu 14.04 VMs in a private-only subnet and installs and configures memcached service on each VM. It also creates one publicly accessible Apache VM with a PHP test page to confirm that memcached is installed and accessible.
DEV	27		thecaterminator	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! Deploy a Redis cluster with configurable number of nodes	This template deploys a Redis cluster on the Ubuntu virtual machines. The deployment topology is comprised of a customizable number of nodes joined into a cluster. The cluster is pre-configured with persistence and other optimizations as per best practices.
DEV	28		!!!BROKEN LINK!!! trentmswanson	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! Install Elasticsearch cluster on Ubuntu Virtual Machines using Custom Script Linux Extension	This template deploys an Elasticsearch cluster on Ubuntu Virtual Machines. The template provisions 3 dedicated master nodes in one availability set, and a configurable number of data nodes in another availability set. A load balancer is configured with a rule to route traffic on port 9200 to the client/data nodes, and also includes SSH nat rules for management. Elasticsearch data nodes are configured to store indexes using multiple data disks attached to each virtual machine.
DEV	29		anweiss	Deploy an Ubuntu VM with Drone CI.	This template provisions an Ubuntu Linux VM on Azure and bootstraps it with the latest release of the Drone continuous integration toolset.
APP	30		justintian	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! Create HPC Cluster on Azure	This template provisions an HPC Pack Cluster on Azure
201	31		kenazk	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! Create 5 VMs in an Availability Set with 3 FDs	This template provisions 5 VMs in an Availability Set with 3 FDs
101	32		singhkay	Windows VM with Anti-Malware extension	This template creates a Windows VM with Anti-Malware extension
APP	33		arsenvlad	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! Create PostgreSQL on Ubuntu with one master and 'N' replicas	This template allows you to create one master PostgreSQL 9.3 server with streaming-replication to multiple (based on the 'numberOfSlaveInstances' parameter) slave servers in a private-only subnet. Each database server is configured with 2 data disks that are striped into RAID-0 configuration using mdadm. The template also creates one publicly accessible VM to serve as a jumpbox for ssh into the backend database servers.
101	34		singhkay	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! Create Storage Account	This template creates a Storage Account
APP	35		hausdorff	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! Spin up a Mesosphere cluster with 3 master nodes	Template spins up and configures a fully-functional mesosphere cluster.
APP	36		hausdorff	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! Spin up a Mesosphere cluster with a single master node	Spin up a Mesosphere cluster with a single master node
201	37		trentmswanson	Create Ubuntu vm data disk raid0	Create Ubuntu vm data disk raid0
101	38		sung-msft	Create a Windows VM with Symantec Endpoint Protection extension enabled	Create a Windows VM with Symantec Endpoint Protection extension enabled
APP	39		johndehavilland	Create an ElasticSearch cluster on Windows	Create an ElasticSearch cluster on Windows
APP	40		ojdude	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! Create SQL Server AlwaysOn Cluster	Create SQL Server AlwaysOn Cluster
201	41		jvallery	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! Create a VM from 32 Data Disks configured for high IOPS	Create a VM from 32 Data Disks configured for high IOPS
DEV	42		madhana	Deploy a Django app	Deploy a Django app
APP	43		nmackenzie	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! Deploy a CoreOS cluster hosting Fleet	Deploy a CoreOS cluster hosting Fleet
DEV	44		paigeliu	!!!BROKEN LINK!!! Deploy a Gluster file system on CentOS	Deploy a N node gluster file system with a replication factor of 2. Each node has 2 disks stripped