How to create CosmosDB SQL API serverless account with ARM template? - azure

Question

I am trying to create a serverless account with Cosmosdb sql api and i have not found any samples given here
I have tried with the following ARM template and it's not creating a serverless account
"resources" : [
{
"type": "Microsoft.DocumentDB/databaseAccounts",
"apiVersion": "2020-04-01",
"kind": "Serverless",
"name": "[parameters('accountName')]",
"location": "[parameters('location')]",
"properties": {
"enableFreeTier": false,
"databaseAccountOfferType": "Standard",
"consistencyPolicy": {
"defaultConsistencyLevel": "Session"
},
"locations": [
{
"locationName": "[parameters('location')]"
}
]
}
},
{
"type": "Microsoft.DocumentDB/databaseAccounts/sqlDatabases",
"apiVersion": "2020-04-01",
"name": "[format('{0}/{1}', parameters('accountName'), parameters('databaseName'))]",
"properties": {
"resource": {
"id": "[parameters('databaseName')]"
},
"options": {}
},
"dependsOn": [
"[resourceId('Microsoft.DocumentDB/databaseAccounts', parameters('accountName'))]"
]
}
]
throwing an error "
"message": "Resource kind Serverless is unknown\r\nActivityId: 0c86f162-3386-49e1-b354-57ba309bb44f, Microsoft.Azure.Documents.Common/2.14.0""

Answer 1

The error is valid, below are the possible values available for the databaseAccount kind
'GlobalDocumentDB'
'MongoDB'
'Parse'
To create a serverless account, you need to pass the capabilities parameter as below under properties
"properties": {
"enableFreeTier": false,
"capabilities": [
{
"name": "EnableServerless"
}
],
"databaseAccountOfferType": "Standard",
"consistencyPolicy": {
"defaultConsistencyLevel": "Session"
},
"locations": [
{
"locationName": "[parameters('location')]"
}
]
}