When sending a single item array to a Bicep template you may get an error like this: This is down to the fact that Bash arrays when used with the Azure CLI can be a little surprising. If we initialise a single item array then it’s not an array. It’s a string. This is a… READ MORE
A common problem for many organizations is to share and consume infrastructure templates. Many ended up with a storage account in Azure, but that had some limitations around versioning and sharing of secrets. Directly consuming templates from a Git repository is another option. However, that’s not exactly problem-free either. For example, what happens if a… READ MORE
Since October 2021, you are able to use a registry for your Bicep templates. This makes working on a larger scale a lot more approachable and can really help to create standards for your company. In this post, I want to focus on a specific part of registries: how do you use them in your… READ MORE
In one of my videos on my YouTube channel, I discuss Azure App Services with Private Link. The video describes how it works and provides an example of deploying the infrastructure with Bicep. The Bicep templates are on GitHub. If you want to jump straight to the video, here it is:https://www.youtube.com/embed/yRIC2U-Vnts?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en&autohide=2&wmode=transparent In the rest of this blog post, I… READ MORE
Yesterday, a couple of code snippets I contributed to Bicep 💪, were merged in the latest Bicep CLI version 0.3.310! Super cool to see this in action myself for the first time. What does it allow you to do? Bicep is the DSL which allows you to create Azure Resources in a declarative way. The… READ MORE
Azure Bicep is the new domain-specific language to deploy your resources in Azure using a declarative syntax. The main difference with ARM templates, Bicep uses a more concise syntax and helps you to scale your deployment without having to pull out your hairs.Since version 0.3, in March 2021, Bicep is supported Microsoft Azure support plans.… READ MORE
