Farmer is an easy-to-learn library for rapidly authoring and deploying entire Azure architectures.
Infrastructure-as-code, done right. Simple code snippets allow you to rapidly construct complex topologies.
Idempotent deployments. Safely provision a template repeatedly and know that only changes will be applied.
Cross-platform. Runs on .NET Core on Windows, Mac or Linux.
Built on trusted technologies. Farmer uses Microsoft’s Azure Resource Manager (ARM) technology for deployments to Azure.
Commercial supported. Professional support plans for teams that wish to benefit from peace of mind and further improve the product.
Easy to learn, easy to understand code through a simple, strongly-typed and pragmatic DSL.
Already using ARM templates?
Farmer has you covered.
Farmer is completely backwards compatible with ARM templates. Farmer generates standard ARM templates so you can continue to use existing deployment processes.
Safely create dependencies between resources. Uses static typing to give confidence that your templates will work first time.
Easily access common properties of resources. No more fighting to concatenate cryptic strings!
Extensible API. Add new helpers and members as needed.
Open source and free. Farmer is free to use and modify. We welcome contributions to the project!
Why not Azure Resource Manager?
Azure Resource Manager is a service-side orchestrator, as such, Farmer does use ARM! It simply replaces the templating language with a statically-verifiable DSL to declare resources and comes with helper functions to perform common tasks. Farmer templates are around 5-8 times smaller than ARM templates, meaning they are quicker and easier to author, understand and maintain. Read more on the comparison page.
Creating a web application with a configured application insights and a linked storage account
Farmer Templates
These 20 lines of simple, readable and type-safe code are translated into 141 lines of JSON ARM template!
// Create a storage account with a container
let myStorageAccount = storageAccount {
name "myTestStorage"
add_public_container "myContainer"}// Create a web app with application insights that's connected to the storage account.
let myWebApp = webApp {
name "myTestWebApp"
setting "storageKey" myStorageAccount.Key
}// Create an ARM template
let deployment = arm {
location Location.NorthEurope
add_resources [
myStorageAccount
myWebApp
]}// Deploy it to Azure!
deployment
|> Writer.quickWrite "myResourceGroup"