Serial copies in ARM Templates

You can now make copies in serial mode. That means that the copies are created after each other instead of parallel. This can be a good idea when you update a live resource. The resources will go down and up after each other.

A sample of this:

        {
            "apiVersion": "2015-01-01",
            "name": "[concat('nestedDeployment',copyIndex())]",
            "type": "Microsoft.Resources/deployments",
            "copy": {
                "name": "myCopySet",
                "count": 4,
                "mode": "serial",
                "batchSize": 2
            },

The mode and batchSize are new. Mode can be serial or parallel. The batchSize configures how many objects are created at the same time in serial mode.

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