This example deploys Azure Virtual Data Center (VDC) hub-and-spoke network stacks in Azure, complete with ExpressRoute and VPN Gateways, Azure Firewall (with provision for forced tunnelling) guarding a DMZ, and Azure Bastion. In addition, as many subnets as required for shared services in the hub and application environments in the spokes may be simply specified.
In this implementation, the Azure Firewall is central. Custom routing redirects all traffic to and from hub and spokes, as well as all traffic to, within and from the DMZ, through the firewall (which scales out as a service to handle the throughput). Firewall rules are required to allow traffic through (not yet implemented). Traffic between shared services subnets in the hub and between subnets within the spokes is not redirected through the firewall, and should instead be controlled using Network Security Groups (not yet implemented).
With minimal configuration, matching stacks may be deployed in Azure paired regions, configured for Production/Disaster Recovery or High Availability (or both for different applications). Global VNet Peering between the hubs connects the separate stacks into one symmetric network.
Although the VDC pattern is in widespread use, Azure now offers a managed service intended to replace it, comprising Virtual Hub along with partner SD-WAN components, with a migration plan that illustrates the differences between the two patterns. But if you want or need to manage your own network infrastructure, VDC is still relevant.
This example uses pulumi.ComponentResource as described here which demonstrates how multiple low-level resources can be composed into a higher-level, reusable abstraction. It also demonstrates use of pulumi.StackReference as described here to relate multiple stacks. Finally, it uses Python's ipaddress module to simplify and validate configuration of network addresses.
After cloning this repo, cd into the azure-py-virtual-data-center directory and run the following commands.
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Create a new stack intended for Production (for example's sake):
$ pulumi stack init prod
This will appear within your Pulumi organization under the
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Create a Python virtualenv, activate it, and install dependencies:
This installs the dependent packages needed for our Pulumi program.
$ python3 -m venv venv $ source venv/bin/activate $ pip3 install -r requirements.txt -
Set the configuration variables for this stack to suit yourself, following guidance in
Pulumi.yaml. This will create a newPulumi.prod.yamlfile (named after the stack) in which to store them:Required:
$ pulumi config set firewall_address_space 192.168.100.0/24 $ pulumi config set hub_address_space 10.100.0.0/16 $ pulumi config set azure-native:location australiaeast
Optional:
$ pulumi config set azure_bastion true $ pulumi config set forced_tunnel 10.0.100.1 $ pulumi config set separator ' ' $ pulumi config set suffix ae
Note that it is advisable to enable Azure Bastion on a second pass to avoid contention.
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Deploy the
prodstack with thepulumi upcommand. This may take up to an hour to provision all the Azure resources specified, including gateways, firewall and bastion hosts:$ pulumi up
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After a while, your Production stack will be ready.
Updating (prod) View Live: https://app.pulumi.com/organization/azureng-py-vdc/prod/updates/1 Type Name Status + pulumi:pulumi:Stack azureng-py-vdc-prod created + ├─ vdc:network:Hub hub created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:VirtualNetwork hub_vn_ae created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:RouteTable hub_fwm_rt_ae created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:RouteTable hub_fw_rt_ae created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:Route fwm_internet_r created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:Route fw_tunnel_r created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:Subnet hub_fwm_sn created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:Subnet hub_fw_sn created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:PublicIPAddress hub_fw_pip_ae created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:PublicIPAddress hub_fwm_pip_ae created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:AzureFirewall hub_fw_ae created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:RouteTable hub_dmz_rt_ae created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:Route dmz_dg_r created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:Route dmz_dmz_r created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:Route dmz_hub_r created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:Subnet hub_dmz_sn created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:RouteTable hub_gw_rt_ae created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:Route gw_gw_r created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:Route gw_dmz_r created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:Route gw_hub_r created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:Subnet hub_gw_sn created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:PublicIPAddress hub_vpn_gw_pip_ae created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:PublicIPAddress hub_er_gw_pip_ae created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:VirtualNetworkGateway hub_vpn_gw_ae created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:VirtualNetworkGateway hub_er_gw_ae created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:RouteTable hub_ss_rt_ae created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:PublicIPAddress hub_ab_pip_ae created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:Subnet hub_ab_sn created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:Route ss_dg_r created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:Route ss_dmz_r created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:Route ss_gw_r created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:Subnet hub_domain_sn created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:Subnet hub_files_sn created + │ └─ azure-native:network:BastionHost hub_ab_ae created + ├─ vdc:network:Spoke s01 created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:VirtualNetwork s01_vn_ae created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:RouteTable s01_rt_ae created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:VirtualNetworkPeering hub_s01_vnp_ae created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:Route s01_dg_r created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:Route s01_hub_r created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:Route s01_dmz_r created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:Route dmz_s01_r created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:Route gw_s01_r created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:VirtualNetworkPeering s01_hub_vnp_ae created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:Route ss_s01_r created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:PublicIPAddress s01_ab_pip_ae created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:Subnet s01_ab_sn created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:Subnet s01_web_sn created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:Subnet s01_db_sn created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:Subnet s01_app_sn created + │ └─ azure-native:network:BastionHost s01_ab_ae created + ├─ vdc:network:Spoke s02 created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:VirtualNetwork s02_vn_ae created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:RouteTable s02_rt_ae created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:VirtualNetworkPeering hub_s02_vnp_ae created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:Route s02_dg_r created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:Route s02_dmz_r created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:Route s02_hub_r created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:Route dmz_s02_r created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:Route gw_s02_r created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:VirtualNetworkPeering s02_hub_vnp_ae created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:Route ss_s02_r created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:PublicIPAddress s02_ab_pip_ae created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:Subnet s02_ab_sn created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:Subnet s02_app_sn created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:Subnet s02_web_sn created + │ ├─ azure-native:network:Subnet s02_db_sn created + │ └─ azure-native:network:BastionHost s02_ab_ae created + └─ azure-native:resources:ResourceGroup prod_vdc_rg_ae created Outputs: dmz_ar: "192.168.100.128/25" fw_ip : "192.168.100.4" hub_as: "10.100.0.0/16" hub_id: "/subscriptions/subscription/resourceGroups/prod_vdc_rg_ae/providers/Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/hub_vn_ae" s01_as: "10.101.0.0/16" s01_id: "/subscriptions/subscription/resourceGroups/prod_vdc_rg_ae/providers/Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/s01_vn_ae" s02_as: "10.102.0.0/16" s02_id: "/subscriptions/subscription/resourceGroups/prod_vdc_rg_ae/providers/Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/s02_vn_ae" Resources: + 70 created Duration: 45m1sFeel free to modify your program, and then run
pulumi upagain. Pulumi automatically detects differences and makes the minimal changes necessary to achieved the desired state. If any changes to resources are made outside of Pulumi, you should first do apulumi refreshso that Pulumi can discover the actual situation, and thenpulumi upto return to desired state. -
Create another new stack intended for Disaster Recovery (following the example):
$ pulumi stack init dr
This will also appear within your Pulumi organization under the
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Set the configuration variables for this stack which will be stored in a new
Pulumi.dr.yamlfile (change the values below to suit yourself):Required:
$ pulumi config set firewall_address_space 192.168.200.0/24 $ pulumi config set hub_address_space 10.200.0.0/16 $ pulumi config set location australiasoutheast
Optional:
$ pulumi config set azure_bastion true $ pulumi config set forced_tunnel 10.0.200.1 $ pulumi config set separator _ $ pulumi config set suffix ase
Note that it is advisable to enable Azure Bastion on a second pass to avoid contention.
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Deploy the
drstack with thepulumi upcommand. Once again, this may take up to an hour to provision all the Azure resources specified, including gateways, firewall and bastion hosts:$ pulumi up
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Once you have both Production and Disaster Recovery stacks (ideally in paired regions), you can connect their hubs using Global (between regions) VNet Peering:
Required:
$ pulumi stack select prod $ pulumi config set peer dr $ pulumi up $ pulumi stack select dr $ pulumi config set peer prod $ pulumi up
Optional (for each stack):
$ pulumi config set org organization $ pulumi config set project project
Note: you may specify another organization and/or project (corresponding hub and spoke names should be the same). It isn't yet possible to discover the Pulumi organization from within the program.
If you later destroy a stack, you need to remove the corresponding
peervariable in the other stack and runpulumi up. If you want to tear down the peerings, you should remove thepeervariables in both stacks and runpulumi up:$ pulumi stack select prod $ pulumi config rm peer $ pulumi up $ pulumi stack select dr $ pulumi config rm peer $ pulumi up
You need to remove both peerings before you can connect the hubs again.
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When you are finished experimenting, you can destroy all of the resources, and the stacks:
$ pulumi stack select prod $ pulumi destroy $ pulumi stack rm $ pulumi stack select dr $ pulumi destroy $ pulumi stack rm