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Graeme Miller commented on JCLOUDS-1311:
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So, I get where you are coming from and that's fine- I am already exploring
other options.
However, just to be clear, I am not suggesting we allow more things to be
configurable for Azure, only that we change the config so that is is easier to
use and understand. Currently, for Azure there is a provider specific option
called subnet. This is a resource id in a format like:
/subscriptions/sub-91121212/resourceGroups/jclouds-default-resource-group-northeurope/providers/Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/jclouds-default-network-northeurope/subnets/jclouds-default-subnet-northeurope
>From this we extract resource group, network and subnet, link to code
>[here|https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds-labs/blob/master/azurecompute-arm/src/main/java/org/jclouds/azurecompute/arm/compute/strategy/CreateResourcesThenCreateNodes.java#L226].
>
My suggestion was to allow users to specify resource, network and subnet
directly, rather than specifying them in the resource ID format above. This
seems to be more user-friendly in my opinion, and doesn't rely on decoding the
URL to extract the config.
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To understand why I suggested the above, I want the ability to create a network
if it doesn't exist. It would be weird if we did have that functionality, but
you had to specify the network/subnet name by using the resource ID format as
you would have to create the URL.
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However, as I said above, I am exploring other issues. If changing how we
specify the config, and creating networks by default is not acceptable that's
fine, happy to close the ticket and move on.
> Azure ARM: Create network if it does not exist
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>
> Key: JCLOUDS-1311
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-1311
> Project: jclouds
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Graeme Miller
>
> An initial discussion was had in JCLOUDS-1308.
> Currently, when deploying a VM to Azure, a user can specify a Network and
> Subnet by specifying a subnet resource ID (the network ID is retrieved from
> the resource id). If this network and subnet does not exist the deployment
> fails.
> I would like to modify the Azure Arm code to create the network if it does
> not exist. To achieve this I propose:
> *) Modifying IpOptions so that a user can specify a NetworkName, SubnetName
> and NetworkResourceGroup (optional, will use the groups resource group if not
> specified)
> *) We either replace the current subnet config (which is actually a subnet
> resource id) or we keep it and make it mutually exclusive with the above
> *) If the Network/Subnet does not exist we create it in the
> NetworkResourceGroup specified. We would do that in the
> normalizeNetworkOptions method
> [here|https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds-labs/blob/master/azurecompute-arm/src/main/java/org/jclouds/azurecompute/arm/compute/strategy/CreateResourcesThenCreateNodes.java#L219]
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