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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

Setting up the test harness

To test resources deployed using the ARM template, it is important that the template deployment generates the necessary outputs that can be read later for testing purposes. Since this activity has already been taken care of, it's time to read the outputs. The outputs from the ARM template can be read using Get-AzureRmResouceGroupDeployment and passing the name of the deployment, along with the resource group's name. The returned output from this cmdlet can be used to retrieve the outputs individually. This code should be placed within the BeforeAll function of Pester so that it can be executed before any of the test cases are executed.

The code shown next gets all the outputs for each resource and stores them into individual variables. Notice the name used to get the values. It is the same as that used in the output section of the ARM template...

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