Azure Infrastructure as Code

3 Writing ARM templates

This chapter covers

• The structure of an ARM template
• Declaring resources and child resources
• Working with parameters and variables
• Returning outputs
• Using and writing functions

In chapter 2 you were introduced to a simple ARM template, and you saw how to deploy it. This chapter goes into much more depth on ARM templates, exploring various techniques and features. While chapter 2 showed how to create your first template and briefly introduced an ARM template layout, this chapter covers declaring resources, parameters, variables, functions, and output sections in depth.

To help illustrate these topics, you’ll create an ARM template over the course of the chapter. This infrastructure hosts an API, which is the backend for ...