[Isaac Abraham] Repeatable Deployments with Farmer (Azure ARM templates)

This meetup is organized by the F# Usergroup in collaboration with the Azure Usergroup and CNUG.

AGENDA:
|> 18:00 Welcome by Pandora Digital Hub, MF#K, Azure UG Denmark and CNUG
|> 18:15 Alberto La Mantia, Manager Engineering & QA at Pandora Digital Hub: A journey to the Cloud|> 18:30 Talk by Isaac Abraham + QA
|> 20:00 Farewell and thank your for participating

ABSTRACT:
Azure Resource Manager templates have made repeatable deployments on Azure a reality. However, the true cost of these templates is the cost of authoring them, generally involving painstaking and error-prone management of JSON files.

Whilst improvements in tooling have helped ameliorate this problem, there's a need to rethink how we create ARM templates, which is where the Farmer project comes in.

In this session you'll be exposed to the following:
|> Learn about the basics of ARM templates and the value proposition behind them
|> Understand the cost of working with ARM templates
|> See how we can use a .NET domain specific language (DSL) to rapidly author and work with ARM templates.
|> See common use cases and cost-benefit of ARM templates
|> Look at ways of dealing with elements such as parameterisation and variables through a programming language rather than through JSON and stringly-typed expressions
|> Discuss how to deploy ARM templates through repeatable continuous integration and deployment tools

BIO:
Isaac Abraham is the author of Get Programming with F# and the director of Compositional IT. As a Microsoft MVP and.NET developer since .NET 1.0, he specializes in consultancy, training and development, helping customers adopt high-quality, functional-first solutions on the .NET platform. He is especially interested in cloud computing and distributed compute challenges. More info: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isaacabraham/

ONLINE:
The Live-stream YouTube link will be visible from the YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3pew_KvyoXTQnlXXdJWtQQ