Create a network interface card

In this guide, we'll walk through the steps to create a Network Interface Card template.
This resources is used by several other resources like Virtual Machines and Virtual Machine Scale Sets.

We'll create the template file to be reused in future deployments.

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If we create a template per resource type, we can reuse the template for all deployments of that resource type.
Any changes to the template will result in an updated version on all deployments.

Create a bicep deploy file

Create new bicep file: networkinterface.bicep.

targetScope = 'resourceGroup'

param location string
param nicName string
param subnetID string
param acceleratedNetworking bool = false
param privateIPAddress string = ''
param dnsServers array = []

var enableAcceleratedNetworking = acceleratedNetworking
var varIpConfigName = 'ipconfig'

resource resNetworkInterfaces 'Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces@2022-07-01' = {
  name: nicName
  location: location
  properties: {
    ipConfigurations: [
      {
        name: varIpConfigName
        properties: {
          privateIPAddress: (!empty(privateIPAddress) ? privateIPAddress : null)
          privateIPAddressVersion: 'IPv4'
          privateIPAllocationMethod: (!empty(privateIPAddress) ? 'Static' : 'Dynamic')
          subnet: {
            id: subnetID
          }
        }
      }
    ]
    dnsSettings: {
      dnsServers: dnsServers
  }
    enableAcceleratedNetworking: enableAcceleratedNetworking
  }
}

tip

PLEASE NOTE! Do not deploy this template yet.

Version overview

This document has the following versions:

Version	Date	Overview of changes
1.1	2024-03021	Add comments from test
1.0	2024-03-14	Initial version.