Azure Virtual Datacenter Toolkit
The September 2019 preview release represents a major change for the toolkit. There are numerous breaking changes and hence we incrementing the major version to 2.
We have revisited our core design princilpes and this lead to significant architectural changes.
At a high level, these include:
- Using Azure DevOps as the default for orchestrating a deployment using YAML pipelines
- Reducing the use of custom code and constructs
- Modules can now be deployed without any custom code
- Promoting Landing Zone as a core pattern
- Improving auditability of deployments
NOTE: The toolkit is in preview. The approach of the toolkit is based on work with our customers, but the specific implementation of this release is not production-ready.
- The toolkit now uses PowerShell Core 6.2 with Az PowerShell modules.
- There is no longer any Python scripts beginning with this release
- Modules are deployment engine agnostic.
- You don't have to use anything proprietary to deploy a module.
- Modules consist of templates and parameters that can be deployed just like any other Azure Resource Manager template.
- Lack of documentation