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Azure Resource Manager Templates Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Azure Resource Manager Templates Quick Start Guide Create, deploy, and manage Azure resources with ARM templates using best practices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789803235
Length 234 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ritesh Modi Ritesh Modi
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Daniel Andres Pelaez Lopez Daniel Andres Pelaez Lopez
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: ARM Template Foundational Skills
2. Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management FREE CHAPTER 3. Azure Resource Manager Templates 4. Understanding Core Elements of ARM Templates 5. Advance Template Features 6. Section 2: ARM Template Advanced Concepts
7. IaaS Solutions Using Templates 8. Unit Testing ARM Templates 9. Design Patterns 10. ARM Template Best Practices 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Parameter's defaultValue and API versions

Use defaultValue property sparingly—it is not a good practice to use default values for parameters that do not need default values. Default values make supplying a value to the parameter optional. It is better to use variables for defining default values.

API versions are used for every resource configured in the ARM template. API versions should be statically defined within the resource configuration. Moreover, there are multiple API versions available for each resource. It is important to use the right API version for your requirements.

An API version's value should not be defined as part of the parameters declaration, nor is it recommended to put them in variables.

The next code example shows that the Microsoft.Sql/servers resource is using an API of the 2017-10-01-preview version, although other versions, such as 2017...

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