Load balancer and web server using Azure Load Balancer and Virtual Machine

This example lives in the pulumi/examples repository. Check out just this directory to use it:

$ git clone --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/pulumi/examples pulumi-examples
$ git -C pulumi-examples sparse-checkout set azure-py-loadbalancer-vm
$ cd pulumi-examples/azure-py-loadbalancer-vm

This example deploys an Azure Load Balancer fronting an Azure Virtual Machine and starts an HTTP server on the VM.

Prerequisites#

1. Install Pulumi
2. Configure Azure credentials
3. Install Python

Deploying the example#

1. Create a new stack:

   pulumi stack init dev

2. Set the required configuration for this example. This example requires you to supply a username and password to the virtual machine that we are going to create. Note that --secret ensures your password is encrypted safely.

   pulumi config set azure-native:location westus    # any valid Azure region will do
   pulumi config set username webmaster
   pulumi config set password --secret <your-password>

3. Install dependencies:

   python3 -m venv venv
   source venv/bin/activate
   pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Deploy the stack:

   pulumi up

   Updating (azuredev):
   
       Type                                           Name                                        Status
    +  pulumi:pulumi:Stack                            azure-py-loadbalancer-vm-azuredev           created (14s)
    +   ├─ random:index:RandomString                  azure-py-loadbalancer-vm-lb-domain-label    created (0.28s)
    +   ├─ azure-native:resources:ResourceGroup       azure-py-loadbalancer-vm-resource-group     created (0.90s)
    +   ├─ azure-native:network:VirtualNetwork        azure-py-loadbalancer-vm-network            created (4s)
    +   ├─ azure-native:network:NetworkSecurityGroup  azure-py-loadbalancer-vm-security-group     created (2s)
    +   ├─ azure-native:network:PublicIPAddress       azure-py-loadbalancer-vm-lb-public-ip       created (5s)
    +   ├─ azure-native:network:LoadBalancer          azure-py-loadbalancer-vm-lb                 created (1s)
    +   ├─ azure-native:network:NetworkInterface      azure-py-loadbalancer-vm-network-interface  created (5s)
    +   └─ azure-native:compute:VirtualMachine        azure-py-loadbalancer-vm                    created (87s)
   
   Outputs:
       fqdn : "http://azure-py-loadbalancer-vm-n3jtn905.westus2.cloudapp.azure.com"
       lb-ip: "20.3.225.29"
   
   Resources:
       + 9 created
   
   Duration: 1m51s

5. Get the IP address of the newly-created Load Balancer from the stack’s outputs:

   pulumi stack output lb-ip

6. Get the FQDN of the newly-created Load Balancer from the stack’s outputs:

   pulumi stack output fqdn

7. Check to see that your server is now running:

   curl "http://$(pulumi stack output lb-ip)"
   curl "$(pulumi stack output fqdn)"

   Hello, World!

Cleaning up#

Once you are finished, you can destroy your stack and remove it to avoid incurring any additional cost:

pulumi destroy
pulumi stack rm