ARM Templates Modularization using Nested and Linked Templates

Modularization of ARM templates is one of the key concepts for delivering reusable and easy to maintain components for your application infrastructure.

In this episode I give you introduction nested and linked templates with real life examples and CLI scripts to tie everything together.

In this episode live demo of
- Deploying nested templates
- Showcasing outer versus inner scopes
- Deploying nested storage account
- Deploying linked templates
- Deploying linked web app and service plan

Next steps for you after watching the video
1. Linked and nested template deployment doc references

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[muralibanka]

Awesome, clear explanation and very good content. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I'm going through your other videos on Azure and they are really good. Keep doing this. :)

[angelramos]

Adam, thanks for your videos, I just passed the azure administrator certification exam. Thank you a lot 🙌🏾 greetings from Peru

[saramgoncalves]

Very very good content! Clear explanations! Thanks a lot to share your knowledge! 5 *

[cdm]

Keep up the great work, love your videos :-)

[morrolan]

Thank you for all your content Adam. I was hoping to utilized linked templates to reduce the complexity of the JSON in the single ARM file (a file per resource seemed like a good idea). However this won't work the way I thought if you have to provide a Uri instead of just using a local file path. I've been planning to explorer Terraform for my infrastructure as code instead. I wonder if you have any plans to cover Terraform in future?

[manishchhetri]

Thanks for the great videos, if the parent and the linked template are in the same azure repository location, can we just use relativePath?

[Navinprasad]

Adam, Thank you for the great tutorial on the linked and nested template. I would like to know, how to provision resource group and resources via ARM template? I have created the Nested ARM template, after that, how do I execute it?

[nishchaychopra]

Hi Adam, Thank you for this wonderful series. They were very concise and insightful. Could you make a video on how to deploy a VM or Storage account using Azure DevOps and pipelines. Cause the yaml and pipeline bit is getting a little confusing. Even if you could share the documentation, that would be great.

[MasterNeoRNCP]

Hi Adam, Is it possible to linke more than one template using Linked Template option??? Pls Clarify witht the syntax?

[novaworld]

Hi Adam, Thank you for this wonderful series. Can you please help me to create multiple function app or web app using a single arm template?

[kaushikappy]

Hi Adam,
Your videos are sharing great knowledge. Could you please tell me how can we run deployment for different resource groups with different resources in single json?

[skfarid]

Adam, Thanks for sharing this awesome video, great knowledge shared. Could you please tell how to work on retrying ARM Template deployment for 3 times with 120 seconds in between for SQL Deployment lets say. Means suppose if the deployment fails once then again it will try 3 times with 120 seconds in between. How to incorporate this in ARM template, please suggest.
Thanks in Advance!!!

[SantoshSingh-kibx]

Thank you sir for the excellent content & knowledge sharing. One request I have here. In this playlist you always creates multiple services using ARM template and deploying it. Sir, is it possible to add one more video where you can explain that how to deploy already created multiple services using ARM template and your approach for doing same. It will be great help for fresher like me.

[kamyrussain]

Brilliant Adam! quick question, how do I deploy this in Azure DevOps?

[prashanthkommana]

Hi Adam. Please upload a video on Azure Migrate for Vmware and Hyper V OnPrem Servers migration to Azure. U r too good mate. Keep going.

[relcoll]

Hi Adam. Could you please show how Azure API Management (APIM) is done with all the policies and features

[nitinkansal]

Hi Adam, where can i get all sample templates along with ppt presentation?

[rickyv.]

You don't need all these, just download the templates before you hit the create (do not download it when it's already created, it won't work because it got already other interfaces). You open the template, create new and add the templates (you only need the template.json), when you deploy, you edit the parameters and copy the parameters from the download parameter.json, then you deploy! crap!!!

[funtodovr]

This is so bad from microsoft.
Why, for the god sake, should I put template into storage account, and not git repo?
Disaster.