Implementing Azure: Putting Modern DevOps to Use
by Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Markus Klein, Mohamed Wali
Azure Resource Manager (ARM)
In the previous major version of Azure, a deployment backend model called Azure Service Manager (ASM) was used. With higher demand on scaling, and being more flexible and standardized, a new model called ARM was introduced and is now the standard way of using Azure.
This includes a new portal, a new way of looking at things as resources, and a standardized API that every tool, including the Azure portal, that interacts with Azure uses.
With this API and architectural changes, it's possible to use such things as ARM templates for any size of deployment. ARM templates are written in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) and are a convenient way to define one or more resources and their relationship to another programmatically. ...
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