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Creating function apps with ARM templates

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Creating function apps with ARM templates

- ARM templates allowed you to define a group of Azure Resources that you want to deploy by using a JSON file. These files can be understood by the ARM API that Azure exposes. Because of these declarative way of defining things, the deployment process could be repeatable and automated. In fact, ARM templates are one of the core concepts if you want to implement infrastructure as code in a DevOps strategy. For example, I have here a couple of files, this template JSON file is an ARM template. So let's open Visual Studio Code because I want to show you an extension that I installed beforehand, this one named ARM Tools, the full name is Azure Resource Manager Tools. This is very helpful because it allows me to manage very easily all the ARM templates. For example, if I select this file here, I can see that is, of course, a JSON file. However, if I go to this ARM template outline panel, I can see in the resources section,…

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