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MRIDUL N.

Individual contributor

Higher Education

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/13/2023

"Simple management"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Resource Manager?

Can categorically assign resources, and the access control is fine too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Resource Manager?

There is a lack of multi-cloud support and addons are limited for ML workflows Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Lokesh G.

Software Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/9/2023

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Good"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Resource Manager?

It's is most useful for automating the process Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Resource Manager?

Dislike that azure arm need to download in Microsoft Azure cloud Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Vedant B.

Cloud Support Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/5/2023

"Azure Resource Manager review"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Resource Manager?

I can create multiple resources of multiple types in one single code with more efficiency and less efforts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Resource Manager?

So far didn't come across anything that I didn't like Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Santhosh G.

Security Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/18/2023

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"ARM review"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Resource Manager?

Managing the resources in azure is quite easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Resource Manager?

Need more automation in azure resource manager Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Insurance

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/18/2023

"Azure resource manager"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Resource Manager?

Deployment with arm templates will be easy and reusable. ARM can be accessed with CLI, visual studio and portal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Resource Manager?

Need to remember more Syntax and lack of multi cloud support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UC

Verified User in Computer & Network Security

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/5/2023

"Good way to get resource templates"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Resource Manager?

The convenience it gives to get the resource templates Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Resource Manager?

Sometimes it becomes difficult to understand especially when parametrizing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Daniel S.

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Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/14/2022

"Azure services"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Resource Manager?

When I'm coding or programming it has all the things I need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Resource Manager?

I really didn't dislike anything it is a perfect 10/10 for me Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Cameron W.

Software Analyst

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/7/2020

"Azure Resource Manager is essential!"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Resource Manager?

The best thing about Azure Resource manager is how easy and how intuitive it is for the average user to use. I personally use Azure Resource Manager each and everyday as a part of my job. The first time that I used ARM it was immediately easy to understand and find the features and the resources that I wanted to deploy and how to deploy them and configure them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Resource Manager?

I would say these least helpful thing about using ARM is that at times when resources fail to deploy or when resources fail to be deleted, ARM does not provide great explanations to why the resources failed to deploy or why the resources were not sucessfully deleted. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Resource Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

I solve numerous problems every day with ARM. The biggest problem that I solve with ARM is how to load balance numerous users on my company's SaaS application. Thousands of users use our SaaS application every day and so part of that challenge is figuring out how to successfully deploy great Azure Resources such as Application Gateways and Load Balancers and configuring them with ARM. ARM makes deploying and configuring these resources super easy with great features such as an intuitive portal with a friendly interface to manage the resources and JSON template support to automate the deployment of several of these resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Sandeep P.

DevOps Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/8/2020

"Azure Resource Manager for Easy management and deployment"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Resource Manager?

Azure Resource Manager provides with an easy management platform. The model also makes deployments much faster using templates. The resource management context helps in organizing resources as microservices with ease. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Resource Manager?

I dont have anything to complain on Azure Resource Manager. The templates can be made more flexible though. Sometimes the templates can prove difficult to be authored while dealing with permissions and extended resources.

The variables definition of a template lacks support for referencing a resource. This limitation has made me to work around and write more lines of code.

The Templates also lacks support support for some MarketPlace resources. eg: SendGrid. This was available earlier but seems to have been removed now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Resource Manager:

It can be a bit daunting at the beginning. However when you get a solid understand of Json structure, you will start finding it quite easy to author templates. Start with simple resource level templates and develop a structure. Use Powershell and Azure Portal to get templating ideas.

There are many sample available in Github which can be a great starter.

Terraform is another option but I prefer ARM templates. Terraform sometimes fails when when you execute it multiple times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Resource Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

Infrastructure management and automation are the main tasks that I solve using ARM. I use ARM templates to automate infrastructure provisioning. I primarily use the nested template feature. I start with creating resource level templates and link them using a deployment level template. This helps in reuse of templates. ARM templates also support KeyVaults. KeyVault to Appservice Certificate import can be automated using ARM templates. automating Custom Domains and SSL bindings using templates makes my life easy while creating large number of AppServices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Aditi M.

Associate Consultant

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/29/2020

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Infrastructure as a Code Best Tool: ARM Templates"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Resource Manager?

I like the syntax and structure of the code. The way in which Parameter files and variables, resources, output block constitute ARM is commendable.

It provides various ways for the deployment of by using Powershell, Azure CLI, Templates, and can combine with Azure DevOps for implementing CI/CD of infrastructure, and that's the best part about ARM.

It removes the manual deployment. Easy to Learn, Easy to write code, and Easy to Deploy.

It can combine with other tools like Terraform for deployment and that's a great achievement as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Resource Manager?

I don't have any dislike for ARM Templates as I consider it the best tool for automating the infrastructure deployment in Azure compare to other tools in the market. But I have some suggestions on which we can work like sometimes resources don't support ARM templates and then we have to switch either SDKs or API to perform the operation and that creates a hindrance while working with ARM Templates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Resource Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

Deploy your entire Azure Infrastructure using ARM Template. We used ARM for various companies like BenjaminMoore, Mattel, Sara Lee Frozen Bakery, and solved their problem of deployment overhead and management by using ARM.

We have deployed 3 tier architecture for various clients using ARM Templates.

Automated the process of Extraction, Load, and Transformation (ETL) process in which we ask to provide the source of extraction like SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, and many more using Azure Data factory import the data, do transformation using Data Bricks using ARM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.