Welcome to the Azure Resource Manager Toolkit!

Here you will find a collection of PowerShell modules designed to make your life working with ARM a bit easier.

Please feel free to submit fixes and enhancements via the GitHub pull request system. You can reach me directly at timothywarner316@gmail.com. Thanks for stopping by!

New-ARMNamingConvention

This PowerShell function generates an Azure Resource Manager naming convention in accordance with best practices and and naming limitations.

Usage

The function has two mandatory parameters:

• Project: Your project ID must begin with a letter and contain no more than four characters
• Environment: You can specify Development, Staging, Testing, or Production

Here's an example showing partial output:

PS C:\>New-ARMNamingConvention -Project 'plur' -Environment 'Development'

Name DisplayName       Type Value          
    
rg   Resource Group    PaaS plur-8F-rg-dev 
vm   Virtual Machine   IaaS plur-8F-vm-dev 
st   Storage Account   IaaS plur8fstdev   

In the above output, the 8F represents a two-digit hexadecimal identifier. As you know, some Azure resources need to be globally unique, so this method attempts to make that easier for you.

Notice the storage account's format; this defers to the (frustrating) limitations of lowercase, alphanumeric storage account names with no intervening hyphens or underscores.

You are limited to a maximum of four characters for your project name. Azure has a 15-character requirement for virtual machine names, so I applied that 15-character maximum to all these proposed resource names. Better safe than sorry!

TODO

• Finish comment-based help
• Include additional Azure resources
• Organize the IaaS and PaaS categories
• Incorporate Pester tests
• Add functionality to the output object

Credit

Special thanks to the following friends and fellow PowerShell community members for their help:

• Jeff Hicks (@jeffhicks) - I couldn't have done this without you :)
• Mike F. Robbins (@mikefrobbins) - Your code is my main reference material
• Adam Bertram (@adbertram) - Your Pluralsight courses are fantastic