Exported Azure ARM template contains a lot's of useless information, let's say snapshots. I would like export actual resource definitions only.
Is it possible to filter unnecessary items out? I would like to convert this template to Bicep (to deploy all the resources into an another subscription) and now I have to clear manually all the unused items from the exported ARM template.
Thank you Gopa. Posting your suggestion as an answer to help other community members.
Exporting an ARM template from the resource group or resource will give you a template that is a snapshot of the current properties so it includes all the properties which were changed after the initial deployment.
You can also try exporting templates from the deployment history too which will give you an option to export your initial version without the changes you made after each deployment.
You can maintain all resources in source control as ARM templates and use CI/CD to deploy, whenever there is a change, so you can have our latest version of ARM templates and use it to build up a new environment when a need comes.
You can export the template that was used to deploy existing resources. The template you get is exactly the one that was used for deployment.
Export template after deployment
Select the resource group you want to export.
Select the link under Deployments.
Select one of the deployments from the deployment history.
Select Template. The template used for this deployment is displayed, and is available for download.
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I've created a resource group on Azure containing all of my resources for my project that is coming to a close and I'd like to not be charged for the resources I will soon no longer be using. I'd like to come back to this project in the future however so my question is: is there a way of backing up my entire resource configuration so I can just redeploy it with ease in the future?
Many thanks.
Yes, You Can Export Resources from ResourceGroup which will generate a new template and that exported template you can download and you can import the template later when you need.
Select the resources from your resource group which you want to export and click on the export template.
Once the Template is generated you can find an Option of download template as shown below.
When you select custom deployment you can deploy the template which you downloaded.
I have an ARM template, which I will be using it to deploy resources (Mentioned as in Azure Portal) via Azure DevOps Pipeline. These ARM templates were created using my Dev Subscription. If I need to use this same ARM template to move to production, I need to manually update the subscription id etc in the ARM template and then run the respective pipelines. Is there any way to automate this manual updation process in ARM template.
I have tried using File Transform Agent job available under Azure DevOps Release pipeline. But since the values are available inside nested loops of ARM templates, it failed. Is there any PowerShell script that will be suitable for this process of updating values.
I don't want to manually update the ids under the ARM Template. Instead, I want to update it automatically.
Set Json Property task might help to set the property with specific value.
First in the marketplace search for "set Json property" task and install it for your organization.
Then you can set the property path and the value accordingly. check here for detail usage
Instead of hard coding in ARM templates you can use parameters file. For dev and prod you can have separate files and while deploying pass ARM Template along with parameter file whichever is required.
You can use AKV (Azure Key Vault) to access your subscription details in parameter file
subscription().subscriptionid will get you the details
I have created a Function App for Containers using ARM template deployment using Azure DevOps Pipeline job (Azure Resource Group Deployment).
After deployment added additional configurations other than default configurations for Function App through portal.
For adding new resources, I have updated my 'template.json' and redeployed again. But this removes all my manual configuration of the existing Function App and set it to the default config settings in the template file. :( . Anyone please tell me a way for sort this problem.
Is there any property that helps to retain the resources and its configuration unchanged while deployment using ARM ? I used the property
"mode":
"Incremental" .
But this didn't work for me. It removes the existing configurations that I have created manually. Please suggest a best way to deploy and manage a resource using ARM. Is there any property or 'key : value' for adding additional settings to site config other than remove the site config and recreate it as inside the template default.
I think your only option is to set those configurations into the ARM template. ARM templates are not always incremental but are some time declarative as in this case.
You can switch to bicep, which has the ability to merge app settings. However, I don't have the details at the moment.
bicep wouldn't be a valid path to take. Except you can generate bicep from your source arm templates if they are 2019 or newer. That way the arm temples still drives the pipeline.
I wonder if terraform has the same options?
I am trying to replicate an existing Azure resource group using arm templates from the automation script section but running into a warning message about 10 resources types cannot be exported yet. One being Azure data factory. After searching online I found that templates for some resource types are not yet available. While looking at the Deployment section in my resource group, I am able to see a deployment details download link for each resource.
Can those be used to recreate each resource into a new resource group? Or is my best bet downloading the template from the automation script section and manually adding the resources for which the template are not yet available?
Any help would be appreciated.
Some of the warnings I got:
ResourceTypeSchemaNotFound:
***The schema of resource type 'Microsoft.DataFactory/dataFactories' is not available. Resources of this type will not be exported to the
template. (Code: ResourceTypeSchemaNotFound, Target:
Microsoft.DataFactory/dataFactories
ExportTemplateProviderError: all related to sql server
***Could not get resources of the type 'Microsoft.Sql/servers/connectionPolicies'. Resources of this type
will not be exported. (Code: ExportTemplateProviderError, Target:
Microsoft.Sql/servers/connectionPolicies)
***Could not get resources of the type 'Microsoft.Sql/servers/backupLongTermRetentionVaults'
***Could not get resources of the type 'Microsoft.Sql/servers/extendedAuditingSettings'.
The Azure resource group ARM templates from the automation script section are not as comprehensive as they should probably be. For example, it is quite possible to deploy a Data Factory instance from ARM. It provides a reasonable starting point but you will find resources that don't deploy as well as a lot of superfluous cruft.
The approach I take is to start from a clean template in Visual Studio and then construct a project from a blank template or quick-start, then refer to the template documentation and build up from scratch, using your exported ARM template from your resource group to help work out how it should look. This results in a nice clean reusable template project.
Unfortunately I have not found an better way yet.
How can you get the Azure automation script for just a single service?
In this case I've selected an App Service Plan, but when I click on it's "Automation script" in the Azure Portal, I get the script for everything (minus the various resource types "that cannot be exported yet" )
Unfortunately, export function only allows to export everything in the resource group, so you get an ARM template that represents the resource group.
If you want to get an ARM template solely for that resource, please deploy it into it's own resource group and then use the Automation script option.
Alternatively, you can use armviz to get a visual representation. When you click on a particular element, it will take you directly to that object in the arm template. Not exactly what you are looking for, but might give you enough.
You can't export just a single resource if there are multiple resources in the resource group, but maybe visual studio can help.
If you export the template and load it in VS as an arm template project, you can easily delete the other resources from the sidebar and leave just the one you need. You might also need to clean up the vars/params though.