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Templates and related terminology

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Templates and related terminology

- [Instructor] As we dive into working with the Azure Resource Manager, it helps to share a common terminology. The first thing we wanna talk about is a Resource. That is a instance of a type of service that we wanna provision inside of Azure. Examples of this might be a virtual machine, or database, or storage, or an event hub, or a stream analytics job. There's a number of different types of these, but each one of them is configurable through a REST API that is run inside of the portal. Those management APIs are exposed from a resource provider. And a Resource Provider then is the code in the system, it's the engine in the system, the fabric that actually creates and makes this thing work. So it exposes operations like start and stop, and handles all the configuration. One of the nice things about the Resource Providers is, that this list, which already has more than 130 different resource providers actively running, is that there are multiple versions of these as we get different…

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