json template to deployment infrastructure

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Code as infrastructure

• use declarative json template (rather than imperative powershell script)
  • json functions to simplify resource naming by having child resource names be a function of parent names.
• plan to use Chef (#27) to handle post deploy configuration with desired state configuration

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use json arrays and objects to specify name hierarchies

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nearly complete see release v0.0.0a

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linked json templates poc working

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linked json templates network resources working

Next Steps:

• add child template to azuredeploy_subnets.json that deploys vms