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# 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

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## 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