Recently I’ve published blog post Subscription Level Deployment Schema. When I published it I was not aware that not so many people know what the schemas are used and needed for. With this blog post I want to address this.
Tag: ARM
Subscription Level Deployment Schema
Not so long ago in Azure we only had resource group level deployment but a couple of months ago subscription level deployments were implemented. On resource group level we deploy resources like Azure VMs, Service Apps, Azure SQL databases, etc and on subscription level we deploy policy definitions and assignments, resource groups (yes they are resource as well), custom RBAC roles, etc. Because of that it the schema in the ARM templates for resource group and subscription level deployments is different. This is something I haven’t thought about it around the excitement of this new deployment method but my good friend Kristian Nese tipped me. So here are the schemas you should use depending on your deployment:
Demystifying Azure Policies with ARM Templates
In my blog post Defining Input Parameters For Policy Definitions in ARM Template I’ve showed you how to use deploy policy definitions with parameters via ARM template. I didn’t described completely on why such workaround is needed but I think now it is good time to explain that as well. The topic is a little bit complex so I hope my explanation will help you understand it.
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Platform Image Azure Policy Definition Example
Azure Policy team has a GitHub repository of Policy definitions examples. Recently I’ve been looking at some of the examples there and I’ve noticed that one of them was not working correctly. Specifically I am referring to Platform Image Policy. Additionally the example contains only the rules. It does not have ARM template for deploying the definition. You will notice also that the policy is pretty static as it does not contain parameters. Because of that based on that sample I would like to create an example on my own and show it to you.
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Escape Double Quotes For Strings in ARM Templates
Recently I’ve came into the following situation. I needed to store a json as Azure Automation string variable. To do that is easy as you just need to pass the json as text by first escaping it. That is easy peasy when using PowerShell. But what if you want to pass the json as object parameter via ARM template parameters file and do the escape completely within the ARM template. Apparently that is possible as well and I will show you how.
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