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Create a VM using an ARM template

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Create a VM using an ARM template

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we are going to talk about how we deploy virtual machines using ARM templates. ARM stands for Azure Resource Manager. It has nothing to do with the ARM processor that you might heard of, or you might have seen it used in different context. This has to do with how Azure actually deploy resources. And the non template is nothing more than just a JSON file. it shows us 765 different Quickstart templates that we can use to deploy the resources on Azure. So, one of them it's Deploy a Ubuntu Linux VM. Another one it's deploying Windows VM. So let's take the Windows VM example here. And this one will take us to a page that shows us what exactly this template is doing. And it gives us some information, it says, it would expect five different parameters. Like which version of the OS do we want, which location, the username and password for the admin, and even if we want a DNS label prefix, meaning we want to have some name we can work with once the machine is deployed. Now, instead of doing…

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