Azure Infrastructure as Code

11 Using deployment stacks for grouping resources

This chapter covers

• Why you need another mechanism for grouping resources by their lifetime in Azure
• What deployment stacks are and how you can use them for grouping resources
• How deployment stacks will replace blueprints, sometime in the future

You have learned all about creating and updating Azure resources through IaC. In a template, you describe how you want your resources to be configured, and the Azure Resource Manager makes it so by creating or updating resources. Up to now, we haven’t paid any attention to removing resources you do not need anymore, except for mentioning the Complete deployment mode in chapter 4.

In chapter 4 you learned that Complete deployments are a powerful but risky ...