Modifying an Existing ARM Template

Now that you understand at a high level what ARM templates are used for and you have worked through creating your own template, you will start modifying an existing ARM template. You are going to modify an existing ARM template that is used to create a resource group. Your goal is to modify the template to deploy the resource group in North Europe instead of West Europe.

First, have a look at the template file, located in the GitHub repository for this chapter; the filename is Modifying_Existing_Template.json:

1. The first thing you should notice is the schema. This looks somewhat different from the previous template you made; the scope is designed for a subscription level and, therefore, uses the subscription-level schema, whereas the previous deployment was focused on a resource group-level deployment. You can see this in Figure 10.9:

Figure 10.9: Subscription deployment template

2. You will notice that...