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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 functions

Functions are units of code execution that are made up of multiple statements. Functions help to improve the reusability of code by encapsulating statements into reusable nuggets that can be invoked or called from multiple places. Azure ARM templates provide multiple functions to make the authoring of advanced templates both easy and versatile.

The output of an ARM template is always deterministic, meaning that no matter the number of times a template is executed or deployed, the end output will always be the same. It is for this reason that functions available with the ARM template do not provide functions based on randomness, date and time, or any other non-deterministic variable.

Almost all programming languages have functions as one of their important constructs. Functions are categorized to accept parameters from a caller and then return output after...

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