Service Manager (classic) mode versus Resource Manager mode

Azure has introduced Azure Resource Manager (ARM) to solve the challenges related to the way we manage projects in Azure. Most of the solutions deployed are a combination of two or more services. For example, running a virtual machine requires the deployment of three different services:

  • A VM instance
  • A storage account that contains the disk images
  • A cloud service

A customer solution is more complex that this, and there are two main issues:

  • Deploying a solution can be complex due to the number of services that needs to be created and configured
  • Organizing and managing all these resources can become cumbersome if we cannot associate some metadata to describe why we have deployed every single ...

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