Azure Sandbox Creator

A simple tool to create Azure resources (based on ARM templates and Pulumi code) that may not require user technical knowledge (shell, json, etc.)

Possible use cases:

• Spin up your devops environments from your smartphone and deallocate them when not in use
• Create software demos and provide a dedicated portal to magage those resources (VMs and NSGs)
• Extend your iPad capabilities with a cheap VM on the cloud
• Learn about ARM templates and Pulumi

The examples provided are just a subset of templates I needed at some point in time for a specific reason. Don't use them as an architecture reference.

Setup

Start by doing the environment configuration with the required authentication data

Run on Linux

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
export FLASK_APP=application.py
flask run

Run in Windows

py -3 -m venv env
env\scripts\activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
SET FLASK_APP=application.py
flask run

Run on an iPad

References

• Functions
• Unique Names
• SSH Password
• Secrets

TODO

• Select inputs
• Comment lines on templates
• Show error messages
• Remove "priority": "Spot" if the deployment failed with InvalidTemplateDeployment for that reason (and evictionPolicy)