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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

Use parameters sparingly

There is a general tendency to add a parameter to every property related to resource configuration. Although it makes the template highly generic, it comes with a cost. ARM templates do not have many features for validating an incoming parameter. An ARM template can conduct basic checks in terms of the length of the parameter and whether or not it is mandatory. The users will not always know the appropriate values for some of these parameters.

Parameters should be defined only for those configurations that affect the size of the environment, the types of resources created, the cost of the environment, security-related information, and data that is needed to configure the resources.

As an example of the parameters for the environment size, we can have a Large, Medium, or Small environment. Based on the value, the appropriate SKU and the size of a resource...

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