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Azure Resource Manager and ARM templates

Azure Resource Manager and ARM templates

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Azure Resource Manager and ARM templates

- [Instructor] So what exactly is Azure Resource Manager or what we call ARM. ARM is a consistent management layer that enables you to work with your resources. It's a layer inside of Azure on top of which everything else, all your resources are going to be built. It allows you to manage your infrastructure through these declarative templates called ARM Templates. So we did talk a little bit about that in the previous video where we discussed you can do different types of deployments either incremental or complete with your ARM templates. An Azure Resource Manager is the layer that allows us to do something like that. So what exactly is an ARM template? An ARM template is a file, it's a JSON file that's treated just like you would any other source code file. It's checked in and out of source control when you're working with it or at least it should be. And it defines all the resources and dependencies and connections and everything that goes into the infrastructure I'm going to be…

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