{"id":78835,"date":"2016-06-10T11:59:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T18:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/?p=78835"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:10:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:10:38","slug":"powertip-export-azure-resource-group-as-json-by-using-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-export-azure-resource-group-as-json-by-using-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Export Azure resource group as JSON by using PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Use the Azure Resource Manager cmdlets to export a resource group as a JSON configuration.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/> I\u2019ve heard that JSON is used to define features in Azure Resource Manager. Is there a way to export a resource group in JSON format?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/> Just use the <strong>Export-AzureRMResourceGroup<\/strong> cmdlet and provide the resource group name. It will automatically save a JSON file that matches the resource group name in your current folder. Here is an example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\"><code>Export-AzureRMResourceGroup \u2013resourcegroupname HSG-AzureRG<\/code><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"The Doctor\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use the Azure Resource Manager cmdlets to export a resource group as a JSON configuration. I\u2019ve heard that JSON is used to define features in Azure Resource Manager. Is there a way to export a resource group in JSON format? Just use the Export-AzureRMResourceGroup cmdlet and provide the resource group name. It will automatically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[568,639,641],"tags":[56,356,154,45],"class_list":["post-78835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hey-scripting-guy","category-powertip","category-windows-powershell","tag-guest-blogger","tag-powertip","tag-sean-kearney","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use the Azure Resource Manager cmdlets to export a resource group as a JSON configuration. I\u2019ve heard that JSON is used to define features in Azure Resource Manager. Is there a way to export a resource group in JSON format? Just use the Export-AzureRMResourceGroup cmdlet and provide the resource group name. It will automatically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}