In prior chapters, we have touched on the ARM template process, but we will look a little further into it in this chapter. There are things you should understand in developing an application in Azure—learning how to leverage ARM templates and infrastructure as code.  Help with adopting standards to provide guidance on resource usage in Azure.

The following are the topics covered in this chapter:

• Guidance for building solutions in Azure
• Understand infrastructure as code
• Configuring workloads in Visual Studio
• Testing solutions locally and in Azure