Where is the list of deployment template schema api versions?

Question

We are authoring Azure Resource Manager templates. We are using the following deployment template schema, because it is the one that we saw in an example.

http://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2014-04-01-preview/deploymentTemplate.json#

It is from early 2014. Where can we find a list of more recent schema versions?

We have looked at the list of resource Manager providers, regions, API versions and schemas. It references a schema for each provider not for the entire template.

When we do find a list of more recent schema, how do we evaluate which deployment template schema to use? Is more recent better?

Answer 1

Still no official list in 2020, until we found one, here's the current root schemas for quick reference

Resource group:

• https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2019-04-01/deploymentTemplate.json#
• https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2015-01-01/deploymentTemplate.json#
• https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2014-04-01-preview/deploymentTemplate.json#

Subscription:

• https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2018-05-01/subscriptionDeploymentTemplate.json#

Management Group:

• https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2019-08-01/managementGroupDeploymentTemplate.json#

Tenant:

• https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2019-08-01/tenantDeploymentTemplate.json#

This will definitely be outdated in the future, this is sourced from here so be sure to check too if you want the latest. Feel free to update the list in the future.