You're reading from Exam Ref AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator Certification and Beyond A pragmatic guide to achieving the Azure administration certification

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801819541

Length 776 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Donovan Kelly

Riaan Lowe

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Table of Contents (30) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Managing Azure Identities and Governance FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: Managing Azure Active Directory Objects

3. Chapter 2: Managing Role-Based Access Control

4. Chapter 3: Creating and Managing Governance

5. Chapter 4: Managing Governance and Costs

6. Chapter 5: Practice Labs – Managing Azure Identities and Governance

7. Part 2: Implementing and Managing Storage

8. Chapter 6: Understanding and Managing Storage

9. Chapter 7: Securing Storage

10. Chapter 8: Practice Labs – Implementing and Managing Storage

11. Part 3: Deploying and Managing Azure Compute Resources

12. Chapter 9: Automating VM Deployments Using ARM Templates

13. Chapter 10: Configuring Virtual Machines

14. Chapter 11: Creating and Configuring Containers

15. Chapter 12: Creating and Configuring App Services

16. Chapter 13: Practice Labs – Deploying and Managing Azure Compute Resources

17. Part 4: Configuring and Managing Virtual Networking

18. Chapter 14: Implementing and Managing Virtual Networking

19. Chapter 15: Securing Access to Virtual Networks

20. Chapter 16: Configuring Load Balancing

21. Chapter 17: Integrating On-Premises Networks with Azure

22. Chapter 18: Monitoring and Troubleshooting Virtual Networking

23. Chapter 19: Practice Labs – Configuring and Managing Virtual Networking

24. Part 5: Monitoring and Backing Up Azure Resources

25. Chapter 20: Monitoring Resources with Azure Monitor

26. Chapter 21: Implementing Backup and Recovery Solutions

27. Chapter 22: Practice Labs – Monitoring and Backing Up Azure Resources

28. Chapter 23: Mockup Test Questions and Answers

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Modifying an ARM template

ARM templates are used to define infrastructure that needs to be deployed in Azure, which is also often referred to as IaC. One of the benefits of ARM templates is the ability to deploy resources rapidly via code with a level of consistency as opposed to an Azure engineer needing to deploy resources via the Azure portal, which might introduce misconfigurations when repeating tasks. It is also useful to view deployment history.

ARM templates make use of the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format to define the resources. To deploy ARM templates, there are two JSON files of importance:

Template file: This is the main file and has sections to define parameters, variables, user-defined functions, resources, and outputs.
Parameters file: This file can be on its own and linked to the template file, which is usually done when there are many parameters used in complex deployments.

The following is how the ARM template schema looks when empty...