Azure Classroom Series – 11/Feb/2020 – Direct DevOps from Quality Thought

ARM Template Basics

For official docs from microsoft refer here

Structure

Basic Structure of the template is as referred over here

{
  "$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2015-01-01/deploymentTemplate.json#",
  "contentVersion": "",
  "apiProfile": "",
  "parameters": {  },
  "variables": {  },
  "functions": [  ],
  "resources": [  ],
  "outputs": {  }
}

Minimal template is a json file with
- $schema
- contentVersion
- resources

Writing ARM Templates

Editor Tools

Visual Studio Code: Install Visual Studio Code
Install Visual Studio Extension Azure Resource Manager Tools.
If you prefer CLI deployments install azure cli and if the deployment has to be from Powershell install azure powershell.

Exercise-1

Create a Storage Account using arm templates

Create a resource group.
Create a folder and create a json file (main.json) in that
Now navigate to ARM Templates documentation from here
Now the storage accounts latest api version (as on feb 11 2020) is here
Try to Create the template

{
  "$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2015-01-01/deploymentTemplate.json#",
  "contentVersion": "0.0.0.1",
  "resources": [
      {
          "name": "qtarmstorageaccdemo",
          "type": "Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts",
          "apiVersion": "2019-04-01",
          "sku": {
              "name": "Standard_RAGRS"
          },
          "kind": "StorageV2",
          "location": "Central US",
          "properties": {
              "accessTier": "Hot"
          }

      }

  ]
}