Undocumented ARM Oddities – .Net Core App Services

Every once in a while, when working with ARM templates you come across something that is missing from the official Microsoft ARM template reference. In my case yesterday, I was looking to update the configuration of an Azure App Service to use the DotNetCore stack (rather than .NET 4.8).

While I initially thought this would be a quick job to simply look up the ARM reference and make the required changes, I found that there was nothing about DotNetCore in the ARM reference. Funny enough, there is a value for “netFrameworkVersion”, but don’t be deceived, if you are looking to setup DotNetCore – this value is not for you (this is for regular .Net only).

To better understand the problem, I Clickly Clikcy’d in an App Service and configured it for DotNetCore (Clickly Clicky is our lingo for deploying infrastructure using the portal rather than a CLI or template). With this, I attempted my usual trick of exporting a template and observing the JSON it spits out. However, much to my amazement I couldn’t see any reference to dotnetcore in there at all.

In the end it was the Azure Resource Explorer which came to my rescue. Used the tool to explore the example I created and found a value called “CURRENT_STACK” in the properties of the “Microsoft.Web/sites/config” resource type.

After playing this this for a while, I was able to translate this into my ARM template with the following JSON.

{
    "type": "Microsoft.Web/sites",
    "name": "[variables('WebSiteName')]",
    "apiVersion": "2020-06-01",
    "location": "[resourceGroup().location]",
    "kind": "app",
    "properties": {
        "siteConfig": {
            "metadata": [{
                "name": "CURRENT_STACK",
                "value": "dotnetcore"
            }]
        },

Hopefully this helps anyone who encounters this problem.

Cheers,

Joel

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