Azure Quickstart Templates
A large community collection of ready-made Azure deployment templates, written in Bicep and ARM.
- Stars
- 14.9k
- Forks
- 16.2k
- Licence
- MIT
- Language
- Bicep
- Last update
- 8 days ago
- Type
- Other
What it is
This repository is a collection of Azure Resource Manager templates contributed by the community. Each template is a starting point that describes Azure resources so they can be deployed in a repeatable way. People use it to find working examples instead of writing infrastructure definitions from scratch. A searchable index of the templates is published on Microsoft Learn.
- Browse the template index to find an example deployment for a specific Azure service
- Copy a Bicep template as a starting point and adapt its parameters for your own resources
- Study how community contributors structure modules and file functions
Great for
- Developers learning how to define Azure resources in Bicep or ARM
- Engineers looking for a starting template for a common Azure setup
- Teams that already deploy infrastructure to Azure and want reference examples
Not ideal for
- People who do not use Azure, since the templates target Azure Resource Manager
- Anyone expecting every template to be maintained or tested to the same standard, because the README describes these as community contributions
- Users who need templates that load external scripts or files from non-Microsoft sources, since the repo's policy rejects such links
How to get it
- 1
Clone and build from source
You'll need: Azure subscription · Azure CLI or Azure PowerShell (to deploy templates)
Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates.git - 2
Run it
- Clone the repository to your machine
- Find a template in the index or in the folders of the repo
- Read the template and its parameters before deploying
- Deploy the template to a resource group in your Azure subscription using your preferred tool
- 3
Get the most out of it
- Use the searchable template index on Microsoft Learn to find templates by Azure service
- Follow the repo's contribution guide if you want to add or improve a template
- Use Bicep modules and file functions instead of external links, as the repo's policy requires
- Review each template's parameters and resources before deployment to control cost
Downloads
Strengths
- Large collection, with about 14,900 stars on GitHub
- Published under the MIT license
- Includes a searchable template index on Microsoft Learn
Trade-offs
- Quality and currency vary across community-contributed templates; the README does not describe a per-template maintenance guarantee
- The README is truncated here, so specific template contents and install steps could not be verified
- Templates are useful only if you already have an Azure subscription and understand what they deploy
Stats synced from GitHub. The assessment above was drafted with AI from the project's README on 2026-10-29 and may miss recent changes — check the README before relying on a command. MIT licence: free to use, modify and distribute, including commercially, as long as you keep the copyright notice.