My college courses did not revolve around learning programming languages. I studied routing, switching and infrastructure. It has been awhile since my college days and we must adapt. With the introduction of Infrastructure as Code, I have evolved and enjoy the process of build, test, repeat and eventually release. However, not all share my enthusiasm with deciphering lines of code. As such, we can make their lives a little easier by creating front ends to our Infrastructure as Code deployments. Let’s begin... Getting Started There is an assumption here that you have created and deployed ARM templates from PowerShell using a template and passing in a parameters file. Before we get to the Form and Flow, we need to know what parameters are needed within our template. For the case of simplicity, we will deploy a new Storage Account to an Azure Subsciption. Our ARM template looks like this. Note the three required parameters include “Deployment***” in the name. We will touch on that later.…

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