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Ritesh Modi
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Ritesh Modi is a technologist with more than 18 years of experience. He holds a master's degree in science in AI/ML from LJMU. He has been recognized as a Microsoft Regional Director for his contributions to building tech communities, products, and services. He has published more than 10 tech books in the past and is a cloud architect, speaker, and leader who is popular for his contributions to data centers, Azure, Kubernetes, blockchain, cognitive services, DevOps, AI, and automation.
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Known configurations

Known configurations, on the other hand, are specific pre-determined configurations for deploying an environment using ARM templates. These pre-determined configurations are known as T-shirt sizing configuration. The T-shirt sizing acts as an analogy. Similar to the way a T-shirt is available in a pre-determined configuration such as small, medium, and large, ARM templates can be pre-configured to deploy a small, medium, or large environment depending on the need. This means users cannot determine any custom size for the environment, but they can choose from various options, and ARM templates execution during runtime will ensure that an appropriate configuration of the environment is provisioned.

So the first step in creating a modular ARM template is deciding on the known configurations for an environment.

As an example, here is the configuration of a data...

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Published in: Jan 2019Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781789614503

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Ritesh Modi

Ritesh Modi is a technologist with more than 18 years of experience. He holds a master's degree in science in AI/ML from LJMU. He has been recognized as a Microsoft Regional Director for his contributions to building tech communities, products, and services. He has published more than 10 tech books in the past and is a cloud architect, speaker, and leader who is popular for his contributions to data centers, Azure, Kubernetes, blockchain, cognitive services, DevOps, AI, and automation.
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