A typical cloud integration solution normally consists of multiple components, such as Logic Apps, Azure Functions, API Management, SQL Server, and an API app. You will also be able to provision these tools independently through Azure Service Management APIs or PowerShell scripts.
With ARM templates, you can group all these tools collectively and use a declarative-style template written in JSON to execute the deployment of cloud services and the dependencies associated with it. If we use the same template, it allows us to deploy repetitively into various environments across the application's life cycle, which produces the same results with consistency.
The benefits of using ARM templates are as follows:
- We can set up resource locks. This provides the option to prevent the deletion or modification of resources by other users, and more.
- We can view the rolled...