An overview of Azure Blueprints

The Discussion

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  Navigations shows Dashboard>Blueprints
  meanwhile that is not possible to find in marketplace, dashboard or preview portal

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  Blueprints are not in the marketplace, but they can be found by searching in the universal search in the nav bar, or by searching in "All Services" which you can find in the left nav

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  To maintain infrastructure as code, the ARM templates are normally stored in some source control like GitHub.
  
  Specifying the ARM template manually, looks a tedious manual process. Is there anyway to directly integrated this with source control?
  

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  Take a look at the "Managing Blueprints-as-code" guide in the show notes. There is a cmdlet called Import-AzureBlueprintArtifact that you can use to automatically add the necessary syntax to use an existing ARM template into a blueprint template artifact. This can be used to create a CI system that does what you describe. Feel free to reach out if you have more questions at alfran[at]microsoft[dot]com
  
  There is also an item in the Governance UserVoice tracking suggesting this: https://feedback.azure.com/forums/915958-azure-governance/suggestions/36820765-blueprints-should-use-azure-template-library-artif

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  Azure Blueprints uses which deployment mode(by-default)?
  
  - Full
  - Difference
  - Verify Only
  
  

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  @Nayan:
  ARM templates are deployed in Incremental mode. The only other option would be "Complete" mode. Not sure what you are referring to with "Full", "Difference" and "Verify Only".
  
  Policy Assignments, Role Assignments and Resource Groups are created via direct REST API PUT calls.

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  Is there a way to create a blueprint from an environment you have already created?