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Using ARM templates

Using ARM templates

- [Instructor] Hi. In this lecture, we're going to learn about using Azure Resource Manager templates or ARM templates to deploy resources in Azure. So arm templates allow you to define the infrastructure and configuration of your Azure resources in a JSON file. This is a typical JSON file that I've created here, and I've simply named it Azure Deploy. But what we call it is not important, we just need to be a name that we can reference later. The template itself is broken down into five main sections. At the very top, we have the schema, and this is always required, and it basically just defines what version of the Azure Resource Manager template schema we're using, and it's fairly consistent. As we can see here, we've not actually changed for quite a few years, and this particular template will work fine. The next section is a parameters section. So the parameters allow us to input additional information when we reference this file. What I mean by that is, it allows us to create one…

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