Understanding Core Elements of ARM Templates

Now that we know the basic outline and structure of an ARM template, and we also know how to declare and use variables and parameters, it's time to move to other important aspects of ARM templates. In this chapter, we will look into some of the most important concepts related to ARM templates. ARM templates provide a foundation for the way environments and resources are provisioned on Azure, while the resources object is the place where all resources are declared, defined, and configured. In this chapter, we will look at the resources object, along with the outputs object, which is the way to return or generate outputs from ARM templates. Outputs play a significant role in providing feedback to the ARM template deployed regarding the state of execution, and other runtime values that can be of importance for testing and usage in...