Bulk exporting ARM and Bicep templates for multiple resources in Azure using Powershell
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3 min readOct 11, 2021
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Overview
The Azure portal only allows one resource to be exported at a time to an ARM template, and currently, you cannot directly export Bicep templates at all through the portal. You can export the entire contents of a resource group to a template that contains the combined resources, but this combines the resources into a single template.
Exporting every resource one by one when you have many to export quickly becomes time-consuming, let's automate it!
Exporting an ARM template for an Azure resource from the Portal
As an example, I have an alert I want to export an ARM template for. I find it in the portal:
Click on the Properties button:
And choose the ‘Export Template’ button
