fog-azure gem vs. fog-azure-rm gem vs. azure-sdk-for-ruby gem

[gVien]

I'm trying to determine the right gem to help our team incorporate Azure into our devops app but I see several Azure gems out there and not entirely sure of the right choice.

After going over several gems, it looks like the fog-azure gem is deprecated. Is Fog-azure-rm gem the replacement for the fog-azure gem?

Microsoft seems to have their own Azure sdk gem. Issues 229 and 232 reference the Azure SDK so I'm not sure what the relationship of the Azure SDK and this gem. Is this gem still actively being developed to support Azure?

[bilal-naeem-confiz]

Hi @gVien

Azure SDK is being actively developed and it supports all the latest features that are present in Azure. The SDK consists of multiple gems, each focused on providing a single service, such as azure_mgmt_compute for compute related services, azure_mgmt_network for network related services and so on.

Fog on the other hand is a cloud services library. Fog provides a simple interface for working with multiple cloud providers. fog-azure-rm is being actively developed and supports Azure Resource Manager.

The relationship between fog-azure-rm and Azure SDK is that fog-azure-rm provides an interface to use Azure SDK. It makes SDK calls easy by providing the user with a simple interface to work with.

You can choose either fog-azure-rm or Azure SDK for your use. fog-azure-rm will provide you a simple interface to work with the SDK calls. fog-azure-rm does not support all the services that are provided by the Azure SDK. For those services you can use independent gems provided by the Azure SDK to provide support.