Question

Your team maintains an ARM template that deploys an Azure SQL logical server and database across dev, test, and prod environments. The administrator login name, database SKU, and server name must change per environment when the pipeline runs, but the resource API versions and a computed database resource ID used in an output must stay consistent regardless of environment. Which approach correctly separates the values that vary at deployment time from the values that should be defined internally?

Accepted Answer

Define the login name, SKU, and server name as parameters supplied at deployment time, and define the API versions and computed resource ID using variables and template functions.

Answer

Define all values (login name, SKU, server name, API versions, and computed resource ID) as parameters so they can be overridden per environment.

Answer

Define all values as variables so the template remains fully self-contained and requires no external input.

Answer

Define the API versions and resource ID as parameters, and define the login name, SKU, and server name as variables that read from environment variables.