ARM templates are JSON files and they enable Infrastructure as Code for Azure Cloud Platform. ARM templates help to provision and configure resources in a predictable, consistent, and repeatable manner.
ARM templates help in the following ways:
- Specifying resources and their configurations in a declarative manner. There is no scripting involved in provisioning resources.
- Providing intent and what should be provisioned by defining the resources rather than how to deploy the resources.
- Offers idempotent deployments by ensuring that the end state of the deployment is always consistent and predictable. This means that even during incremental deployments, the end state will remain consistent. It also means that templates deployed over and over will not change the end result, and environments will be equivalent when used to create multiple environments.
- Orchestrates...
