Authoring Azure JSON Templates Tooling, best practices, and inspiration for building Azure Resource Manager templates. Trevor Sullivan trevor@artofshell.com Art of Shell LLC Vlad Joanovic Principal Program Manager Microsoft

Trevor Sullivan Vlad Joanovic @pcgeek86 @vladimirjoanovi Microsoft MVP, Docker Captain Principal Program Manager Lead 12 years in IT 17 years in IT Beer Seafood

Workflow

ARM Template Workflow Author Validate Test Deploy Monitor

Template Validation Compiles template Ensures valid syntax xPlat CLI: azure group template validate PowerShell: Test-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment

Tooling

Visual Studio Code Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Extension Easily install from marketplace Custom themes Syntax highlighting Collapsible code regions

Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Azure SDK 2.x Graphical view of template

ARM Visualizer

ARM Visualizer

Azure Lens

Export ARM Templates

Set up Visual Studio Code During this demonstration, we'll show: Install Visual Studio Code Install VS Code ARM Extension Install armsnippet extension (JSON + PowerShell snippets)

Template Structure

ARM JSON Template Structure { "$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2015-01-01/deploymentTemplate.json#", "contentVersion": "1.0.0.0", "parameters": { }, "variables": { "resources": [ ], "outputs": { }

Template Functions

CopyIndex() Useful for building large numbers of resources

String Manipulation Concatenation Trimming Padding

References

Best Practices

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