Exporting an ARM Template

Now that you have experienced working with ARM templates in many forms, from creating them from scratch to saving deployments you initiate in the Azure portal, you will explore another method of generating ARM templates from the Azure portal. Complete the following steps to export an ARM template from a resource group:

1. Navigate to the Azure portal by opening a web browser and going to https://portal.azure.com.
2. Navigate to your resource groups. You can do this by selecting Resource groups from the left hamburger menu in the portal or by searching Resource groups from the main search bar at the top of the screen.
3. Once in the Resource groups blade, select a desired resource group. If you have been following along until now, you can select your ResourceGroupA resource group by clicking on its name.

Figure 10.29: Selecting ResourceGroupA

4. Scroll down the left menu to the Automation context and click Export template...