ARM Templates Copy Elements

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With Copy Elements you can deploy multiple instances of your resources or properties, all in a single Resource Manager template.

Intro

In this episode I give you introduction to instance multiplication using copy elements and show you practical examples of applying this practice for resources, properties, parameters, variables and outputs.

Source code for demos: https://github.com/MarczakIO/azure4everyone-samples/tree/master/azure-resourcemanager-templates-multiple-instances

Agenda

In this episode I will show you a live demo of

• Deploying multiple Storage Accounts
• Deploying multiple Storage Accounts using parameters
• Creating dependencies
• Deploying multiple child resources
• Creating array variables using copy element
• Creating array outputs using copy element
• Creating resource properties using copy element

Video

Next steps for you after watching the video

1. Multiple resources docs
   • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/templates/copy-resources?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5003556
2. Multiple properties docs
   • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/templates/copy-properties?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5003556
3. Multiple variables docs
   • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/templates/copy-variables?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5003556
4. Multiple outputs docs
   • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/templates/copy-outputs?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5003556
5. Multiple instances of resource docs
   • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/templates/template-tutorial-create-multiple-instances?tabs=azure-cli?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5003556