Azure Mikrotik Cloud Hosted Router

Basic Mikrotik Router OS CHR deploy to Azure using Bicep for learning/experimenting purposes.

Requirements

• Azure Subscription
• Terminal using bash (WSL/Linux)
• Azure CLI
• Biceps installed az bicep install

Usage

• Edit mikrotik.sh to change defaults if needed
  • Change export AZURE_DEFAULTS_LOCATION="westeurope" to change the default location
  • Change export AZURE_DEFAULTS_GROUP="rg-mikrotik" to change the default resource group name
  • Generates mikrotik.bicepparam if it does not exists, initial values can be changes in mikrotik.sh
  • Generates .domainNameLabel which contains the domainNameLabel for the VM
    • For example mikrotik-chr-ad3038024aeaf, then the fqdn will be mikrotik-chr-ad3038024aeaf.westeurope.cloudapp.azure.com
• Run mikrotik.sh
  • This wil create the resource group if it doesn't exists
  • Deplopy mikrotik.bicep
    • This will create a storage account
    • Create a Image from this storage account
    • Deploy a VM Standard_B1ls using this Image
  • It wil fail on the deployment of Microsoft.Compute/images, since there is no image uploaded yet
    • Please upload a CHR image of the type VirtualPC image which can be downloaded https://mikrotik.com/download to the chr container in the storage account and rerun mikrotik.sh
• By default the Network Security Group only exposes SSH and WinBox from the internet and only from the IP that ran mikrotik.sh.