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Azure Bicep

Azure Bicep is an open source, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool from Microsoft that offers a better replacement for using Azure ARM Templates for resource deployment and management. The “bicep” language compiles into ARM JSON and is supported by Microsoft giving you a modern IaC language for Azure deployment automation.

Benefits of Convention over Configuration for IaC Deployment Projects

by Chris Pietschmann | Apr 20, 2024

With Infrastructure as Code (IaC), every aspect of an organization's infrastructure is defined and managed through code. This infrastructure...

Azure Bicep: Create Azure OpenAI Service and GPT-4 / GPT-35-turbo Model Deployment

by Chris Pietschmann | Mar 15, 2024

Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service is a fully managed service offering from Microsoft that enables you to host your own instances of AI models from...

Deploying Azure Bicep Templates using the Azure CLI

by Chris Pietschmann | Feb 17, 2023

Using the Azure CLI to deploy Azure Bicep templates can be used to more efficiently build Infrastructure as Code (IaC) deployment workflows for...

Azure Bicep: If/Else Conditional Resource and Module Deployment

by Chris Pietschmann | Jan 19, 2023

Azure Bicep has an inline If/Else conditional expression that can be used to conditionally provision an Azure Resource or even a full Azure Bicep...

Comparison: Terraform vs Azure Bicep

by Chris Pietschmann | Jan 18, 2023

HashiCorp Terraform and Azure Bicep are both declarative Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools for provisioning and managing infrastructure in the...

Azure Bicep: Deploy Azure Bastion into Virtual Network

by Chris Pietschmann | Sep 14, 2022

Azure Bastion is the more secure way to enable Remote Desktop (RDP) support for Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). Basically, an Azure Bastion host gets...

Start Creating Azure Bicep Modules for Code Reuse

by Chris Pietschmann | Feb 8, 2022

The upcoming Module feature for Azure Bicep really enhances the new ARM Template alternative language in a way that ARM JSON never did. Using Azure...