One thing that has always been a mystery when leveraging Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates is the "apiVersion" that needs to be specified for each resource that should be created in your template.

At a high level, every item processed by ARM will reach out to its corresponding service provider. Each of these providers have their own API for handling requests: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/resources/

The tricky thing is many of the template examples that are provided out on GitHub in the quickstart gallery don't align or may not be using the latest API. In this case, the question is... how do I find the latest API used by each resource provider?

Within PowerShell there's a single command that can return back the API versions supported by each Resource Provider.

(Get-AzResourceProvider -ProviderNamespace "Microsoft.Storage").ResourceTypes

You'll notice the follow result, which provides us exactly what we were looking for.

PS C:\Users\jstrom> (Get-AzResourceProvider -ProviderNamespace "Microsoft.Storage").ResourceTypes


ResourceTypeName : storageAccounts
Locations        : {East US, East US 2, West US, West Europe...}
ApiVersions      : {2019-04-01, 2018-11-01, 2018-07-01, 2018-03-01-preview...}

ResourceTypeName : operations
Locations        : {}
ApiVersions      : {2019-04-01, 2018-11-01, 2018-07-01, 2018-03-01-preview...}

ResourceTypeName : locations/asyncoperations
Locations        : {East US, East US 2, West US, West Europe...}
ApiVersions      : {2019-04-01, 2018-11-01, 2018-07-01, 2018-03-01-preview...}

ResourceTypeName : storageAccounts/listAccountSas
Locations        : {East US, East US 2, West US, West Europe...}
ApiVersions      : {2019-04-01, 2018-11-01, 2018-07-01, 2018-03-01-preview...}

ResourceTypeName : storageAccounts/listServiceSas
Locations        : {East US, East US 2, West US, West Europe...}
ApiVersions      : {2019-04-01, 2018-11-01, 2018-07-01, 2018-03-01-preview...}

ResourceTypeName : storageAccounts/blobServices
Locations        : {East US, East US 2, West US, West Europe...}
ApiVersions      : {2019-04-01, 2018-11-01, 2018-07-01, 2018-03-01-preview...}

ResourceTypeName : storageAccounts/tableServices
Locations        : {East US, East US 2, West US, West Europe...}
ApiVersions      : {2019-04-01, 2018-11-01, 2018-07-01, 2018-03-01-preview...}

ResourceTypeName : storageAccounts/queueServices
Locations        : {East US, East US 2, West US, West Europe...}
ApiVersions      : {2019-04-01, 2018-11-01, 2018-07-01, 2018-03-01-preview...}

ResourceTypeName : storageAccounts/fileServices
Locations        : {East US, East US 2, West US, West Europe...}
ApiVersions      : {2019-04-01, 2018-11-01, 2018-07-01, 2018-03-01-preview...}

ResourceTypeName : locations
Locations        : {}
ApiVersions      : {2019-04-01, 2018-11-01, 2018-07-01, 2018-03-01-preview...}

ResourceTypeName : locations/usages
Locations        : {East US, East US 2, West US, West Europe...}
ApiVersions      : {2019-04-01, 2018-11-01, 2018-07-01, 2018-03-01-preview...}

ResourceTypeName : locations/deleteVirtualNetworkOrSubnets
Locations        : {East US, East US 2, West US, West Europe...}
ApiVersions      : {2019-04-01, 2018-11-01, 2018-07-01, 2018-03-01-preview...}

ResourceTypeName : usages
Locations        : {}
ApiVersions      : {2019-04-01, 2018-11-01, 2018-07-01, 2018-03-01-preview...}

ResourceTypeName : checkNameAvailability
Locations        : {}
ApiVersions      : {2019-04-01, 2018-11-01, 2018-07-01, 2018-03-01-preview...}

ResourceTypeName : storageAccounts/services
Locations        : {East US, West US, East US 2 (Stage), West Europe...}
ApiVersions      : {2014-04-01}

ResourceTypeName : storageAccounts/services/metricDefinitions
Locations        : {East US, West US, East US 2 (Stage), West Europe...}

Happy ARM templating!