Azure Infrastructure as Code

4 Deploying ARM templates

This chapter covers

• Understanding what happens when a template is deployed
• Choosing a deployment tool
• Picking the correct template deployment scope and mode
• Understanding how authorizations, policies, and resource locks influence deployments
• Debugging template deployments

After discussing how to write ARM templates in the previous chapters, it is time for a more in-depth discussion of what happens when you deploy a template. Every deployment goes through the same series of steps after you have submitted it to Azure Resource Manager. The first part of this chapter goes through those steps one by one.

After we discuss the deployment process, we’ll look at two more deployment topics: how you can use ARM to validate templates ...