Section 3: Deploying Azure Bicep Templates
by Yaser Adel Mehraban, John Downs, Edmondo Rosini
Infrastructure as Code with Azure Bicep
- Infrastructure as Code with Azure Bicep
- Foreword
- Contributors
- About the author
- About the reviewer
- Preface
- Section 1: Getting Started with Azure Bicep
- Chapter 1: An Introduction to Azure Bicep
- Chapter 2: Installing Azure Bicep
- Technical requirements
- Cross-platform installation
- Installing the Azure CLI
- Installing Bicep using the Azure CLI
- Installing Bicep using Azure PowerShell
- Installation on Windows
- Installation using Windows Installer
- Installation using Chocolatey
- Installation using winget
- Manual installation using PowerShell
- Manual installation on macOS
- Installing Bicep via Homebrew
- Installing Bicep via Bash
- Manual installation on Linux
- Getting nightly builds
- Working with Bicep in a Docker container
- Working with an Azure CLI Docker container
- Summary
- Chapter 3: Authoring Experience
- Technical requirements
- Bicep extension for Visual Studio Code
- Installing Visual Studio Code
- Installing the Bicep extension
- Snippets offered by the Bicep extension
- Refactoring
- Formatting
- Using quick fixes
- Configuring the Bicep linter
- Customizing the linter
- Using the Bicep CLI to use the linter
- Bicep Playground
- Compiling Bicep snippets
- Decompiling an ARM template
- Using sample templates in Bicep Playground
- Summary
- Chapter 4: Compiling and Decompiling Bicep Files
- Technical requirements
- Compiling Bicep files
- Compiling a Bicep file using the Bicep CLI
- Compiling and deploying a Bicep file using the Azure CLI
- Compiling and deploying a Bicep file using Azure PowerShell
- Troubleshooting possible errors and warnings
- An invalid template
- Linter errors
- Decompiling ARM templates into Bicep
- Using the Azure CLI
- Using the Bicep CLI
- Potential fixes after decompiling
- Exporting templates and decompiling
- Summary
- Section 2: Azure Bicep Core Concepts
- Chapter 5: Defining Resources
- Technical requirements
- Resource definition
- Common properties
- Resource-specific properties
- Adding additional properties
- Referencing existing resources
- Referencing a resource that is in the same file
- Referencing an already deployed resource
- Explicit dependencies
- Visualizing dependencies
- Resource scopes
- Resource group
- Subscription
- Management group
- Tenant
- Setting the scope at the resource level
- Multi-scope Bicep files
- Global functions
- Bicep language specification
- Structure
- Whitespaces
- Comments
- Bicep type system
- Supported data types
- Simple types
- Objects
- Arrays
- Union types
- ARM and Bicep syntax comparison
- Best practices for Bicep syntax
- Summary
- Chapter 6: Using Parameters, Variables, and Template Functions
- Technical requirements
- Parameters
- Minimalistic definition
- Setting default values
- Using decorators
- Using parameters within a Bicep template
- Passing parameters during deployment
- Variables
- Defining variables
- Using variables
- Configuration variables
- Template functions
- The any function
- Date functions
- The bool function
- Deployment functions
- Numeric functions
- Array functions
- Object functions
- Resource functions
- String functions
- Summary
- Chapter 7: Understanding Expressions, Symbolic Names, Conditions, and Loops
- Technical requirements
- Understanding expressions
- Unary operators
- Comparison operators
- Logical operators
- Numeric operators
- Accessor operators
- Operator precedence and associativity
- Exploring conditions
- Deploy condition
- New or existing resource
- Runtime checks
- Diving into resource iterations
- Syntax
- Loop index
- Loop array
- Loop array and index
- Nested loops with conditions
- Using batches
- Summary
- Chapter 8: Defining Modules and Utilizing Outputs
- Section 3: Deploying Azure Bicep Templates
- Chapter 9: Deploying a Local Template
- Technical requirements
- Deploying Bicep with Azure PowerShell
- Connecting to your Azure environment
- Previewing changes with the what-if operation
- Passing parameters
- Deployment scopes
- Deploying Bicep with the Azure CLI
- Connecting to your Azure environment
- Preview changes with what-if operation
- Passing parameters
- Deployment scopes
- Troubleshooting possible errors and warnings
- Compile-time errors and warnings
- Deployment-time errors
- Summary
- Chapter 10: Deploying Bicep Using Azure DevOps
- Technical requirements
- Creating the Azure DevOps pipeline
- Prerequisites
- Creating a pipeline in Azure DevOps
- Adding a validation step to our pipeline
- Validating the deployment
- Deploying the template
- Adding the deployment step
- Pushing the changes to your repository
- Accessing the deployment output in the pipeline
- Receiving outputs from a deployment
- An alternative approach to accessing deployment outputs
- Summary
- Chapter 11: Deploying Bicep Templates Using GitHub Actions
- Technical requirements
- Creating a GitHub action
- Prerequisites
- Creating the workflow from code
- Adding validation steps to the workflow
- Adding an Azure CLI action to the workflow
- Adding deployment steps to the workflow
- Using the official Azure ARM action
- Adding the Azure ARM action to the workflow
- Accessing deployment outputs for later use
- Accessing outputs from the Azure CLI action
- Accessing outputs from the Azure ARM action
- Summary
- Chapter 12: Exploring Best Practices for Future Maintenance
- Technical requirements
- Applying version control and code flows for your IaC
- Single pipeline approach
- Separate pipelines for code and infrastructure
- Source control everything
- Idempotency and its importance
- Idempotency
- Immutability
- Modularity and microservices
- Bicep best practices
- Parameters
- Variables
- Resource definitions
- Outputs
- Configuration set
- Shared variable file
- Managing service version updates
- Azure Bicep's known limitations
- Single-line objects and arrays
- Newline sensitivity
- No support for API profiles
- CLI limitations
- Summary
- Why subscribe?
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Section 3: Deploying Azure Bicep Templates
In this section, you will learn how to deploy your templates locally using CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps.
This part of the book comprises the following chapters:
- Chapter 9, Deploying a Local Template
- Chapter 10, Deploying Bicep Using Azure DevOps
- Chapter 11, Deploying Bicep Templates Using GitHub Actions
- Chapter 12, Exploring Best Practices for Future Maintenance
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