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

2. Trevor Sullivan Vlad Joanovic @pcgeek86 @vladimirjoanovi
Microsoft MVP, Docker Captain
Principal Program Manager Lead
12 years in IT
17 years in IT
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3. Workflow

4. ARM Template Workflow
Author
Validate
Test
Deploy
Monitor

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

6. Tooling

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

8. Visual Studio Code

9. Visual Studio
Azure SDK 2.x
Graphical view of template

10. ARM Visualizer

11. ARM Visualizer

12. Azure Lens

13. Export ARM Templates

14. 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)

15. Template Structure

16. ARM JSON Template Structure{
"$schema": "
"contentVersion": " ",
"parameters": { },
"variables": {
"resources": [ ],
"outputs": { }

17. Template Functions

18. CopyIndex()
Useful for building large numbers of resources

19. String Manipulation
Concatenation
Trimming
Padding

20. References

21. Best Practices

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