Azure infrastructure support

[meshuga]

It should be possible to report Azure VMs, network infrastructure and DBs.

[javiplx]

Is there any ongoing effort on this direction? I'm interested on azure support, and also able to help development.
In case I need to start from scratch, is there any documenation pointing to the way to extend to a different cloud provider?

[meshuga]

Thanks for the interest in the feature!

Adding a new provider is one of functionalities we want to focus on in this release.

We already made steps to be able to support other cloud providers but need to make some fixes to make things work well.

I already got an account I am willing to add Azure support but need to ask for an input. Do you know what resources would have highest priority to focus on?

[javiplx]

No real idea. I've just landed in an azure based Project, and reached this project from https://github.com/mingrammer/diagrams, while thinking how to make my own discovery.
Probably the best is to start with networks/compute, and from what I've seen it is probably good idea to use the resource group as mandatory parameter.

Looking at the code, I believe that going to multicloud will require some important changes in project structure. So I will probably start my own path trying to mimic your structure in the hope that it might become mergeable in the future.

[leandrodamascena]

Thank you for the interest in help this project @javiplx.

We think that we can support new providers this month.. And you might start code your own script (a standalone script) to discover Azure resources and we can merge after that. If you want, we can do this in this way.

Thank you again.

[anon65856]

Any update on this at all?

[meshuga]

Thanks @anon65856 for the question. I've been talking yesterday with @leandrodamascena on work to add GCP + Azure (finally). I hope to add support for them although it's been a bumpy year...

[gentleadam]

I've been watching this project for a while and really want to see some Azure support. I'm a beginner to Python and would love to contribute. I wonder if there's any documentation or pointers you can give me to assist @meshuga ?

[jacorbello]

I am beginning to work on this issue. There's a few updates to the core services that need to be changed in order to support multiple cloud providers. I have one PR #177 open right now to refactor the CLI to support [cloud provider] [resource] formatting against the CLI.

Next tasks that I can tell:

• CLI Refactor
• Generalize the command_runner
• Update cache locations to support the new provider/resource format: /../provider/[aws|az]/resource/[network|iam|security] for example
• Generalize the command arguments. Instead of vendor-specific calls such as aws vpc, let's consider using more generic languages: aws network or az network

There's probably more tasks to add to the list above, but this is a definite starting point.

Btw, new dependencies to support Azure (to be added to the requirements.txt file in my next PR): azure-mgmt-resource and azure-identity.