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Infrastructure as Code with Azure Bicep

You're reading from   Infrastructure as Code with Azure Bicep Streamline Azure resource deployment by bypassing ARM complexities

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801813747
Length 230 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Yaser Adel Mehraban Yaser Adel Mehraban
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Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started with Azure Bicep
2. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Azure Bicep FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Installing Azure Bicep 4. Chapter 3: Authoring Experience 5. Chapter 4: Compiling and Decompiling Bicep Files 6. Section 2: Azure Bicep Core Concepts
7. Chapter 5: Defining Resources 8. Chapter 6: Using Parameters, Variables, and Template Functions 9. Chapter 7: Understanding Expressions, Symbolic Names, Conditions, and Loops 10. Chapter 8: Defining Modules and Utilizing Outputs 11. Section 3: Deploying Azure Bicep Templates
12. Chapter 9: Deploying a Local Template 13. Chapter 10: Deploying Bicep Using Azure DevOps 14. Chapter 11: Deploying Bicep Templates Using GitHub Actions 15. Chapter 12: Exploring Best Practices for Future Maintenance 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Bicep Playground

Azure Bicep Playground is a useful tool if you do not wish to install the tooling locally, but still want to review the syntax and have a go at verifying what would be the result of your Bicep file or what would be the equivalent of your ARM template in Bicep.

The tool is hosted at https://bicepdemo.z22.web.core.windows.net/ and once loaded, it will contain an example Bicep file with multiple resources and its equivalent ARM template JSON object.

Compiling Bicep snippets

I recommend removing everything and simply pasting the storage object you had in the previous example into the Bicep section on the left-hand side. You should see the JSON being populated immediately:

Figure 3.16 – Compiling a Bicep file with Azure Bicep Playground

If you have any errors in your snippets, the tool will not generate the JSON and show you a compilation failure message:

Figure 3.17 – Compilation error shown in the Bicep...

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