Previously, all resouces were created with a certain tag. When the cleanup
phase came, the Resources - List route[1] was used to get all resources with
the tag. Then, they were deleted in the right order.
Sadly, the Resources - List API has issues with listing disks. Sometimes,
it returns the virtual disks 15 minutes after they were created. As the
result, the disks have been left behind quite often and our bill was higher
than necessary.
This commit uses a different method - the Go code now knows all resource names
(see the previous commit), so it can delete all resources without listing them
using the "broken" API route.
[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/resources/resources/list
Prior this commit the resource names were generated in the deployment
template, so the Go code actually didn't know them. This commit generates
all names in the Go code, so they can be used in the future commits.
Previously, vhd images were tested using QEMU. This commit changes that to
boot them in the actual Azure infrastructure.
Azure VMs have quite a lot of dependencies - a network interface, a virtual
network, a network security group, a public ip address and a disk. Azure CLI
and Azure Portal handle the creation of all these resources internally.
However, when using the API, the caller is responsible to create all these
resources before creating an actual VM.
To handle the creation of all the resources in the right order, a deployment
is used. A deployment is a set of resources defined in a JSON document.
It can optionally take parameters to customize each deployment. After the
deployment is finished, the VM is up and ready to be tested using SSH.
Sadly, the deployments are a bit hard to clean-up. One would expect that
deleting a deployment removes all the deployed resources. However, it doesn't
work this way and therefore it's needed to clean up all resources "manually".
For this reason, our deployment sets a unique tag on all the resources created
by the deployment. After this test is finished, the API is queried for all
the resources with the tag and then, they're deleted in the right order.
