armate v0.3.0

Armate - Azure ARM Template Analyzer

Currently under alpha development phase

Features

If you have an ARM Template JSON file. This CLI tool can analyze the file and output, 1. Resource Analytics

• Total number of resources
• Total number of resources with preview Version

2. Module Analysis
   • Total number of modules (Resource type: Microsoft.Resources/deployments)
   • Check whether it has any duplicate modules
   • In case of duplicate modules, print their names
   • Currently, only work with static module names

Usage

npx armate@latest <arm_template_json_path>

Example

If the current directory contains a deployment.json, run:

npx armate@latest deployment.json

this tool will analyze it and print the result in the following format:

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|      Resource Analytics      |
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> Total Resources: 6
> Preview Versions Used: 1
   [*] Microsoft.Insights/diagnosticSettings : 2021-05-01-preview
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|       Module Analytics       |
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> Total Modules: 15
> Module Names are Unique?  false
> Duplicate Module Names: 3
   [*] service_plan_deployment
   [*] analytics_deployment
   [*] storage_deployment

The example output indicates that the ARM template has 3 duplicate module names. Each of them is used in more than one module.