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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

ARM template expressions

Expressions can, at times, be confusing to understand. Expressions often look very similar to program statements, so it can be difficult to distinguish a statement from an expression, and so on. Expressions are written to be evaluated at runtime before returning a value; the value can only be ascertained at runtime. Statements, however, are program code that are executed to perform an action, such as assignments and looping. An expression is comprised of variables, operators, literals, and functions that work together to generate runtime values.

Generally, we declare variables using a specific data type and then use that variable at multiple points within the program. Expressions are similar to variables; however, the variable itself is instead constructed and evaluated at runtime.

Let's understand expressions with the help of an example, as follows...

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