Get Started with Azure Bicep – Alternative to ARM Templates
Azure Bicep is an abstraction built on top of Azure ARM Templates and Azure Resource Manager that offers a cleaner code syntax with better support…
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.
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How to Build and Deploy an MCP Server with TypeScript and Azure Developer CLI (azd) using Azure Container Apps and Docker
Large language models (LLMs) are revolutionizing the way we build software. But as the scope of intelligent applications grows, so does the need for structured,…
Azure Bicep: Create Azure OpenAI Service and GPT-4 / GPT-35-turbo Model Deployment
Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service is a fully managed service offering from Microsoft that enables you to host your own instances of AI models from OpenAI,…
Benefits of Convention over Configuration for IaC Deployment Projects
With Infrastructure as Code (IaC), every aspect of an organization’s infrastructure is defined and managed through code. This infrastructure deployment and configuration automation makes managing…
Azure Bicep: If/Else Conditional Resource and Module Deployment
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 Module.…
Azure Bicep: Deploy Azure Bastion into Virtual Network
Azure Bastion is the more secure way to enable Remote Desktop (RDP) support for Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). Basically, an Azure Bastion host gets deployed…
Benefits of Code-First Infrastructure Deployments with HashiCorp Terraform and Azure Bicep
Whether you’re a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), Cloud Engineer, or IT Admin, you will be required to spin up, configure, and manage all sorts of…
Comparison: Terraform vs Azure Bicep
HashiCorp Terraform and Azure Bicep are both declarative Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools for provisioning and managing infrastructure in the Microsoft Azure cloud. While they…
Deploying Azure Bicep Templates using the Azure CLI
Using the Azure CLI to deploy Azure Bicep templates can be used to more efficiently build Infrastructure as Code (IaC) deployment workflows for managing Microsoft…
Start Creating Azure Bicep Modules for Code Reuse
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…
Azure Bicep: Create IoT Hub and Device Provisioning Service (DPS)
All Azure IoT solutions are built starting with Azure IoT Hub as the cloud-base message broker for the Internet of Things (IoT) solution. This service…
Azure Bicep Roadmap Q4’20 into 2021
Microsoft recently released the first preview of the Azure Bicep project which provides a new, more intuitive language for building out infrastructure as code deployments…