Well-Architected Framework: Operational Excellence

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Shows how an ARM Template moves from the portal or az deployments create to actual resources: syntax checking, preflight validation against resource providers, and a what-if diff run before any provisioning. The deployments runtime evaluates expressions, builds an execution graph from DependsOn edges, and issues parallel long‑running operations; each deployment becomes an Azure resource with per-resource operation details and a correlation ID for backend debugging. Introduces Bicep, a transpiled DSL that emits ARM JSON, and mentions a private preview of deployment Stacks (aka.ms/GETStacks) landing in a few weeks.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:36Welcome
3. 1:29Review and Create
4. 5:08Deployment
5. 8:05Validation
6. 11:51Deploying
7. 12:41Execution Graph
8. 13:23Deployment Sequence
9. 14:55Operation Details
10. 16:52Bicep
11. 18:21Wrapup
12. 18:58Questions

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