Understand Azure Resource Manager resources

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When creating Bicep files or Azure Resource Manager templates (ARM templates), you need to understand what resource types are available, and what values to use in your template.

Each of the resources available for Azure Cosmos DB is listed under the Microsoft.DocumentDB resource provider:

Resource type Description
Microsoft.DocumentDB/databaseAccounts Represents an account
Microsoft.DocumentDB/databaseAccounts/sqlDatabases Represents a NoSQL API database
Microsoft.DocumentDB/databaseAccounts/sqlDatabases/containers Represents a NoSQL API container

Visually, you can think of these resources as a hierarchy.

Hierarchy of resources in an Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL account

This list is not exhaustive, other resources can be created in a template such as:

  • Stored procedures
  • User-defined functions
  • Pre-triggers
  • Post-triggers

Tip

These example container-level resources can be created with their code automatically deployed using a template.