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Bring up AAI only for now

Design Issues

Resource Group

A resource group makes it easier to package and remove everything for a deployment - essentially making the deployment stateless

Network Security Group

Global or local to the resource group?

Static public IP

Register a CNAME for an existing domain and use the same IP address everytime the deployment comes up

Entrypoint cloud init script

How to attach the cloud init script to provision the VM

ARM template chaining

passing derived varialbles into the next arm template - for example when bringing up an entire federated set in one or more DCs

Troubleshooting

DNS propagation and caching

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