Preface

The idea to write this book hit me when Azure Bicep was released and after working with ARM templates for quite a while to deploy resources on Microsoft Azure. I truly believe resource deployment should not be complex and infrastructure as code is a must-have for every organization.

In this book, you will start with some basics and a review of Azure ARM templates and why there was a need for a revision to remove some barriers and make it easier for cloud engineers and DevOps teams to deploy their resources using code. From installation to writing your first template in your local development environment, testing, and deploying it locally, you will learn it all. You will find out about Bicep's syntax and how to write maintainable and reusable templates that can be used in your continuous deployment pipelines with ease. And at the end of the book, there are some of the best practices and industry standards that you need to be aware of.

The book is structured in a way that goes from basics to advanced topics so that you will not have any problems following along even if you have not had prior experience with Azure ARM templates or resource deployments via templates before.