Learn Bicep

Welcome to a simple, yet powerful step-by-step learning guide repo built with easy-to-start samples on Azure Bicep.

Azure Bicep blog posts

• Simplifying Azure IaC with Azure Bicep child resources
• Managing Azure Bicep sensitive info with Azure key Vault
• Hardening parameter inputs on Azure Bicep files
• Four parameterization options for your Azure Bicep deployments
• August month updates from Azure Bicep
• How to check and update Azure CLI version on your workstation?
• What is new in Azure Bicep v0.4?
• Troubleshooting an error on Bicep module – on Azure CLI (2.22.0) for Windows 10
• Setting up your first Azure Bicep private registry
• What is new in Azure Bicep v0.5.6 ?

Introduction

This project is created to test Bicep language features, compilation, validations, etc.

Learning by examples is a main focus and accomplished through writing simple and helpful Azure infrastructure code with Bicep language.

The followings are initial goals of the project:

- Automate deployment via GitHub Actions
- Author Infrastructure as a Code (IaC)
- Author Security as Code (SaC)
- Showcase new features of Azure Bicep as they come

• Learn Bicep
  • Azure Bicep posts
  • Run sample demos
  • Workflows
  • Project Layout

How to run sample demos

Get running your samples in the VS Code:

• Fork the branch (aka, starting from obvious ;)
• Install Azure CLI or PowerShell Core on you machine
• Enable the Bicep runtime on you machine: try 'az bicep version' or 'bicep version'
• Install VS Code Bicep extension

Workflows

• SL Scan: shiftleft-analysis:-> describes workflow purpose
• Deploy-Main-Site: main.deployment:-> describes workflow purpose

Project Layout

• modules: contain reusable components
• param-files: Learn about parameterization options in Azure Bicep files
• samples: contain 11 step deployments of Azure and security services
• scripts: contain single '.azcli' file that walk you through deployment scripts