Ed Elliott gives us a few ways of deploying Azure resources without using ARM templates:
So, what are our options?
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Create/Edit/Delete ourselves using Powershell/.Net/Python/Go/Java/Some Other SDK
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Process something else (YAML?) into JSON
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Generate the ARM using c#/Powershell/something else
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3rd party tools, (Terraform is the big daddy) / others include Sparkle Formation
To be honest, I’d probably just stick with ARM templates.