AZ-900 Certification Notes

Chapter 1.8 - ARM Templates

ARM Templates

• Describe Resource Usage
  • What are you updating, deleting, creating?
• Common Syntax
  • Defined language for all ARM templates, making it easier to formalize and learn
• Idempotent
  • Every ARM template can be applied multiple times, and the result is always the same

Benefits

• Idempotent
  • Run the same templates once, twice, or as many times as you like. It will have the same outcome
• Source Control
  • Keep track of all changes to the ARM templates
• Reuse
  • Use a combination of multiple partial ARM templates to achieve glory -- or at least complex templates
• Declarative
  • Specify what you want, not how it is done
• No Human Errors
  • Automation means humans don't repeat the same mistakes