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Azure Resource Manager Templates Quick Start Guide

By : Ritesh Modi
Book Image

Azure Resource Manager Templates Quick Start Guide

By: Ritesh Modi

Overview of this book

Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates are declarations of Azure resources in the JSON format to provision and maintain them using infrastructure as code. This book gives practical solutions and examples for provisioning and managing various Azure services using ARM templates. The book starts with an understanding of infrastructure as code, a refresher on JSON, and then moves on to explain the fundamental concepts of ARM templates. Important concepts like iteration, conditional evaluation, security, usage of expressions, and functions will be covered in detail. You will use linked and nested templates to create modular ARM templates. You will see how to create multiple instances of the same resources, how to nest and link templates, and how to establish dependencies between them. You will also learn about implementing design patterns, secure template design, the unit testing of ARM templates, and adopting best practices. By the end of this book, you will understand the entire life cycle of ARM templates and their testing, and be able to author them for complex deployments.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Section 1: ARM Template Foundational Skills
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Section 2: ARM Template Advanced Concepts

Section 1: ARM Template Foundational Skills

In this section, the reader will learn the basics of ARM templates. This will include understanding important ARM template constructs and how to deploy them. Authoring complex templates using advanced features, including linked templates and nested templates, will also be part of this chapter. ARM templates have some unique features, such as functions and expressions, which will also be detailed in a comprehensive manner.

This section contains the following chapters:

  • Chapter 1, Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management
  • Chapter 2, Azure Resource Manager Templates
  • Chapter 3, Understanding Core Elements of ARM Templates
  • Chapter 4, Advance Template Features