Create Azure Resource Manager templates to automate Consumption logic app deployment for Azure Logic Apps

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01/04/2024

Applies to: Azure Logic Apps (Consumption)

To help you automatically create and deploy a Consumption logic app, this article describes the ways that you can create an Azure Resource Manager template. Azure Logic Apps also provides a prebuilt logic app Azure Resource Manager template that you can reuse, not only to create Consumption logic apps, but also to define the resources and parameters for deployment. You can use this template for your own business scenarios or customize the template to meet your requirements. For an overview about the structure and syntax for a template that contains a workflow definition and other resources necessary for deployment, see Overview: Automate deployment for logic apps with Azure Resource Manager templates.

Important

This article applies only to Consumption logic apps, not Standard logic apps. Make sure that connections in your template use the same Azure resource group and location as your logic app.

For more information about Azure Resource Manager templates, see the following topics:

Create templates with Visual Studio

For the easiest way to create valid parameterized logic app templates that are mostly ready for deployment, use Visual Studio (free Community edition or greater) and the Azure Logic Apps Tools for Visual Studio. You can then either create your logic app in Visual Studio or find and download an existing logic app from the Azure portal into Visual Studio.

By downloading your logic app, you get a template that includes the definitions for your logic app and other resources such as connections. The template also parameterizes, or defines parameters for, the values used for deploying your logic app and other resources. You can provide the values for these parameters in a separate parameters file. That way, you can more easily change these values based on your deployment needs. For more information, see these topics:

Create templates with Azure PowerShell

You can create Resource Manager templates by using Azure PowerShell with the LogicAppTemplate module. This open-source module first evaluates your logic app and any connections that the logic app uses. The module then generates template resources with the necessary parameters for deployment.

For example, suppose you have a logic app that receives a message from an Azure Service Bus queue and uploads data to Azure SQL Database. The module preserves all the orchestration logic and parameterizes the SQL and Service Bus connection strings so that you can provide and change those values based on your deployment needs.

These samples show how to create and deploy logic apps by using Azure Resource Manager templates, Azure Pipelines in Azure DevOps, and Azure PowerShell:

Install PowerShell modules

If you haven't already, install Azure PowerShell.
For the easiest way to install the LogicAppTemplate module from the PowerShell Gallery, run this command:
```
Install-Module -Name LogicAppTemplate
```
To update to the latest version, run this command:
```
Update-Module -Name LogicAppTemplate
```

Or, to install manually, follow the steps in GitHub for Logic App Template Creator.

Install Azure Resource Manager client

For the LogicAppTemplate module to work with any Azure tenant and subscription access token, install the Azure Resource Manager client tool, which is a simple command line tool that calls the Azure Resource Manager API.

When you run the Get-LogicAppTemplate command with this tool, the command first gets an access token through the ARMClient tool, pipes the token to the PowerShell script, and creates the template as a JSON file. For more information about the tool, see this article about the Azure Resource Manager client tool.

Generate template with PowerShell

To generate your template after installing the LogicAppTemplate module and Azure CLI, run this PowerShell command:

$parameters = @{
    Token = (az account get-access-token | ConvertFrom-Json).accessToken
    LogicApp = '<logic-app-name>'
    ResourceGroup = '<Azure-resource-group-name>'
    SubscriptionId = $SubscriptionId
    Verbose = $true
}

Get-LogicAppTemplate @parameters | Out-File C:\template.json

To follow the recommendation for piping in a token from the Azure Resource Manager client tool, run this command instead where $SubscriptionId is your Azure subscription ID:

$parameters = @{
    LogicApp = '<logic-app-name>'
    ResourceGroup = '<Azure-resource-group-name>'
    SubscriptionId = $SubscriptionId
    Verbose = $true
}

armclient token $SubscriptionId | Get-LogicAppTemplate @parameters | Out-File C:\template.json

After extraction, you can then create a parameters file from your template by running this command:

Get-ParameterTemplate -TemplateFile $filename | Out-File '<parameters-file-name>.json'

For extraction with Azure Key Vault references (static only), run this command:

Get-ParameterTemplate -TemplateFile $filename -KeyVault Static | Out-File $fileNameParameter

Parameters	Required	Description
TemplateFile	Yes	The file path to your template file
KeyVault	No	An enum that describes how to handle possible key vault values. The default is `None`.

Next steps

Deploy logic app templates

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