Some jinja2 macros to simplify Azure ARM templates development

Requirements

• jinja2 CLI
  • pip install j2cli
• jq for pretty-printing
  • Use your package manager (apt, yum, ...)

Installation

• Clone this repo
  • git clone https://github.com/sebbrochet/azure-jinja2.git
• Create a symbolic link in the directory where you plan to use the macro
  • cd my_template_dir
  • ln -s <just_cloned_directory> azure-jinja2
• Hack your ARM templates as shown in the examples directory...

Usage

• Generate your ARM template with your master jinja2 file (f.e azuredeploy.json.j2)
  • j2 azuredeploy.json.j2 > generated/azuredeploy.json
• You can pretty-print it with jq (keep order) or json.tool (order is lost)
  • j2 azuredeploy.json.j2 | jq . > generated/azuredeploy.json
  • j2 azuredeploy.json.j2 | python -m json.tool > generated/azuredeploy.json

API Reference

• HTML documentation of all macros is in the docs directory

BTW

• You may find my ARM template checker useful to catch some errors before deploying your template on Azure...