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Talking DevOps with Microsoft today. Special guest Michael Levan, a DevOps professional and Cloud Engineer. Twitter: @TheNJDevOpsGuy Blog: https://www.thelifeofanengineer.org   ARM What is ARM? ARM is a configuration management tool that has a JSON syntax. It allows you, in a programmatic way with the use of functions to write your software-defined-infrastructure. These functions are anything from concatenating to creating random values. You define your infrastructure by calling certain API's for your resources. These API calls are for anything from VMs to storage accounts to function apps. ARM is a configuration management tool much like Ansible and Chef. AKS What is AKS? AKS is an Azure-hosted Kubernetes service. This service allows you to tie your Kubernetes micro-service infrastructure into Azure. Azure hosts the master node for you (where the Kubernetes API is) and allows you to manage your workers. Azure What is Azure? Azure is a cloud based platform to host your infrastructure vs using standard on-pr