Infrastructure as Code with Azure Bicep.

It’s no secret that developers don’t like using JSON files to declare their resources in Azure because of issues such as parameter duplication and not being able to use comments in templates. Azure Bicep helps resolve these issues, and this book will guide you, as a developer or DevOps engineer, to get the most out of the Bicep language.
The book takes you on a journey from understanding Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates and what their drawbacks are to how you can use Bicep to overcome them. You will get familiar with tools such as Visual Studio Code, the Bicep extension, the Azure CLI, PowerShell, Azure DevOps, and GitHub for writing reusable, maintainable templates. After that, you’ll test the templates and deploy them to an Azure environment either from your own system or via a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline. The book features a detailed overview of all the Bicep features, when to use what, and how to write great templates that fit well into your existing pipelines or in a new one. The chapters progress from easy to advanced topics and every effort has been put into making them easy to follow with examples, all of which are accessible via GitHub.
By the end of this book, you’ll have developed a solid understanding of Azure Bicep and will be able to create, test, and deploy your resources locally or in your CI/CD pipelines.

Type
ebook
publication date
2022-02-10
what you will learn

Get started with Azure Bicep and install the necessary tools
Understand the details of how to define resources with Bicep
Use modules to create templates for different teams in your company
Optimize templates using expressions, conditions, and loops
Make customizable templates using parameters, variables, and functions
Deploy templates locally or from Azure DevOps or GitHub
Stay on top of your IaC with best practices and industry standards

no of pages
230
duration
460
key features
Learn Azure Bicep from an official Microsoft trainer * Master the authoring experience to make your Infrastructure as Code journey seamless * Go beyond writing good templates with the help of advanced tips and tricks
approach
Learning the basic concepts in Bicep, installing and using it to write the first template, then converting ARM templates to Bicep. From there learn how to use the Bicep templates in Azure DevOps pipelines, and at the end learn to use GitHub Actions to deploy your resources.
audience
This book is for cloud engineers, developers, and DevOps engineers who are responsible for writing templates to deploy resources in Microsoft Azure and contributing to CI/CD pipelines. Professionals who want to get started with DevOps and Infrastructure as Code when it comes to working with Microsoft Azure will also benefit from reading this book. Readers are expected to have a basic understanding of CI/CD concepts, must have worked with ARM templates to deploy resources to Azure, and must have used or be familiar with Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions for their CI/CD pipelines.
meta description
The ultimate guide to becoming proficient in Azure Bicep while having a better development experience and making your Infrastructure as Code seamless and error free
short description
Bicep is a domain-specific language that can be used to deploy resources to Microsoft Azure. It aims to improve the authoring and developer experience and acts as a transparent abstraction over ARM templates. This book covers all the available features of Bicep to help you achieve more by writing less code.
subtitle
Streamline Azure resource deployment by bypassing ARM complexities
keywords
Azure, Azure DevOps, Azure Infrastructure as code, Azure resource manager, ARM Template, Azure Bicep
Product ISBN
9781801813747