ARM revolution
In April 2014, Microsoft announced a new approach to Azure with a new portal and ARM model. We already discussed how ARM and RBAC changed the administration of Azure resources and made life in the cloud much easier.
But another option ARM brought to the table was ARM templates. ARM templates are files in JSON format that contain information on all resources in a single resource group. We can use ARM templates to deploy new resources, update resources, or remove resources from a resource group. Every resource group in Azure portal has an automation blade that allows us to save an ARM template for that resource group, redeploy resources, or download a template locally. This allows us to replicate resources from a resource group ...
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