Multivendor Provisioning
The Azure Resource Manager (ARM) is the recommended approach to provisioning infrastructure resources in Azure. Sometimes there is a need to provision all or some of the resources for an application outside Azure. These can be resources in a private cloud, another public cloud, or even some other hosted services like the hosted Elasticsearch services offered by Found (http://found.no).
There are a lot of different ways to approach this. We could use a combination or custom scripts for provisioning the other resource and then deploying the Azure resources through ARM using either the declarative or imperative model. We could transform the ARM templates as needed, or even have an ARM template invoke custom provisioning ...
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