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Introduction

Alright, thought I was done going over ARM templates, but I had one last idea that I couldn't help myself adding. I wanted to add an output once the ARM template completed for my ansible-lab that outputed the ssh connection string to connect to the public ip address of the ansiblecontrol server.

Use Case

After an ARM template deployment is done, you may want some outputs or information from the deployed resources or with a linked template.

Try yourself

After defining all the resources in the ARM template, add an outputs section. I named this output "connectionString" and concatenated the ssh and @ symbols while extracting the value of the vmAdminName parameter and the ipAddress of the publicIPAddress resource:

"outputs": {
    "connectionString": {
        "type": "string",
        "value": "[concat('ssh ', parameters('vmAdminName'), '@', reference(resourceId('Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses', variables('ansiblePIP'))).ipAddress)]"
    }
}

☁️ Cloud Outcome

After the ARM template is completed, I can now just copy the connectionString output and use it to connect to the virtual machine:

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