- A formal breakdown of the ARM template structure and syntax can be found at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/templates/template-syntax.
- The complete ARM Template reference can be found at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/templates/.
- An overview of all functions that can be used in ARM templates can be found at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/resource-group-template-functions.
- More information about Azure Blueprints can be found at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/governance/blueprints/overview.
- Details about the WhatIf command for ARM templates can be found at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/templates/template-deploy-what-if.
- There are many online references to the story of "turtles all the way down", but an early reference can be found digitized at https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/15166.
- The reference including all Powershell DSC built-in resources can be found at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/dsc/overview/overview.
- More information about CloudFormation can be found at https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/.
- More information about Chef can be found at https://www.chef.io/.
- More information about Puppet can be found at https://puppet.com/.
- More information about Ansible can be found at https://www.ansible.com/.
- More information about Terraform can be found at https://www.terraform.io/.
- The following are links to Microsoft hands-on labs that can be used to get hands-on experience with the topics discussed in this chapter (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/intro-to-governance/):