Summary

This chapter provided information about foundational concepts related to Azure Cloud, ARM, and ARM templates. Infrastructure as Code is a relatively new paradigm and should be adopted by enterprises to automate the process of provisioning environments. They also help in making Azure DevOps effective and efficient. ARM templates help to provision environments using a declarative approach. This helps to define the environment using JSON language and provides numerous ways to deploy them.

ARM provides an extensible and performant framework to manage, provision, and govern resources. We covered these topics in detail and provided a basic primer on JSON – the language of ARM templates.

We will start exploring ARM templates in more detail from the next chapter onward, and will cover the tools needed to create, deploy, and write basic ARM templates.