Azure ARM Templates - Part 2: Testing

Following on from authoring the Azure ARM Templates - Part 1: Development post, in this one I will cover testing the ARM template. Two potential ways to test the ARM templates is by manually building a Pester test, and another is by using Microsoft’s Azure Resource Manager Template Toolkit (arm-ttk) module. You can run local tests against ARM templates using PowerShell - which I will demonstrate in the post - but most commonly template testing and validating is used during a CI pipeline....

July 3, 2021 · 4 min · Mark kerry