Azure ARM (8) ARM Template - VS Code

　　In the previous section, the author introduced how to use Visual Studio to edit ARM Template.

　　But at some point, Visual Studio is too large to install. This chapter will introduce you to using VS Code to edit Azure Template.

　　1. Download VS Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/

　　2. Run VS Code and install the Azure ARM Extension. Click View and expand

　　3. Search for azurerm and install the Extension. As shown below:

　　4. After the installation is complete, select File, Preferences, User Code Snippets. As shown below:

　　5. Then select JSON.

　　6. Create a new JSON file and enter the following content:

{

    "$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2015-01-01/deploymentTemplate.json#",

    "contentVersion": "1.0.0.0",

    "parameters": {

    },

    "variables": {

    },

    "resources": [

    ],

    "outputs": {

    }

}

　　7. We click on the resources node, add curly brackets {} at the end, and then write the first letter a in the curly brackets.

　　The system will automatically prompt apiVersion, we can just press Enter:

　　8. Enter other content in sequence, as shown below:

　　9. After deployment, we can also deploy Azure Template in the following ways

# sign in

Write-Host "Logging in...";

Add-AzureRmAccount -EnvironmentName AzureChinaCloud;

# select subscription

Write-Host "Selecting subscription '$subscriptionId'";

Select-AzureRmSubscription -SubscriptionID $subscriptionId;

#Create Resource Group

New-AzureRmResourceGroup -Name $resourceGroupName -Location $resourceGroupLocation

#Deploy Template

 New-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment -ResourceGroupName "[ResourceGroupName]" -TemplateFile "[FilePath]" -TemplateParameterFile ["ParameterFilePath"];