We kicked off the Christchurch Azure Meetup recently, and I presented on the new IPAM features of Virtual Network Manager. The recording of the session is available on YouTube.

Recently Microsoft announced a public preview of native IP Address Management in Azure, powered by Virtual Network Manager. Being new technology, and with a new landing zone to build, I decided to test and see if we could use it to make IP management simpler.

The starting point was to completely miss the documentation and try and work it out myself. Sadly, the API documentation has yet to be updated to cover the new properties, and tracing the portal requests didn’t help either, since it uses a slightly different flow (sigh!).

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