Automate management and deployment of Azure cloud resources using Azure resource manager and ARM templates

In the past decade, cloud computing has been gaining popularity at a tremendous rate. Some cloud providers are experiencing a growth rate of 50% year over year - which is just astounding. And the reason for this growth is obvious - cloud computing enables ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources which can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal effort.