Managing Azure with ARM Templates

Azure Resource Manager (ARM)

• The deployment and management service for Azure

• Management layer that allows you to create, update and delete resources called "deployments"

• All actions that you take to manage your Azure resources goes through the ARM

ARM Templates

• What they are actually creating are something called ARM Templates

• Written in JSON/JavaScript object type language

• Format that a computer can understand

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Change template, redeploy, new server with new code up and running