AWESOME Azure Bicep 💪

A curated list of AWESOME blogs, videos, tips-and-tricks, codes, tools, scripts... Hand-picked tips and tricks to help you learn Azure Bicep and get you ready to start deploying Azure resources to your favorite environment(s).

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Table Of Contents

• AWESOME Azure Bicep 💪
  • Table Of Contents
  • Official
    • Microsoft Learn
    • Docs
    • Videos
    • Announcements and Articles
    • Repositories
    • Forums and Feedback
  • Community
    • Videos
    • Podcasts
    • Books
    • Articles
    • Tools
    • Repositories
    • Forums

Official

Links below are from official Microsoft sources, websites, and channels.

Microsoft Learn

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• Option 1: Deploy Azure resources by using Bicep and Azure Pipelines
• Option 2: Deploy Azure resources by using Bicep and GitHub Actions
• Part 1: Fundamentals of Bicep
• Part 2: Intermediate Bicep
• Part 3: Advanced Bicep

Official Docs

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• Best practices for Bicep
• Bicep documentation
• Bicep file structure and syntax
• Configure your Bicep environment
• Create private registry for Bicep modules
• Deploy Bicep files from Azure Cloud Shell
• Deploy resources with Bicep and Azure PowerShell
• How to deploy resources with Bicep and Azure CLI
• How to use Azure Bicep for developing ARM templates - Jan 5, 2022
• Install Bicep tools
• Migrate to Bicep
• Official Azure Bicep Releases
• Project Bicep - an ARM DSL
• Publish Bicep modules to private module registry
• Quickstart: Intro to Bicep with Web App and DB
• What is Bicep?

Official Videos

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• Bicep Community Calls & Azure Deployment & Governance Channel
• How to use Azure Bicep for developing ARM templates | Azure Tips and Tricks
• Learn everything about the next generation of ARM Templates
• Level up your skills with Bicep!

Announcements and Articles

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• Azure Pipelines for Bicep Tasks
• Comparing JSON and Bicep for templates
• Decompiling ARM template JSON to Bicep

Official Repositories

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• AKS Bicep Accelerator
• Azure Landing Zones (ALZ) - Bicep
• Bicep Authoring Devcontainer
• Bicep Registry Modules
• Bicep samples for documentation
• Bicep type definitions for ARM resources
• Project Bicep - an ARM DSL

Forums and Feedback

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• GitHub Azure/Bicep Discussions

Community

Links below are from community sources, websites, and channels.

Community Videos

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• ARM (and Bicep) Template Masterclass
• Azure Bicep First Look - LinkedIn
• Azure Bicep: Get Up and Running
• Azure Spring Clean 2022 - Bicep Registry
• Bicep for Real
• Bicep vs Terraform - A fair and balanced comparison
• Day 15 - Deploying a solution in Azure using Bicep to investigate Network Anomalies by Dave Rendon
• Day 15 - Let's flex our Biceps to help Santa by Marco Obinu
• Day 16 - Twelve features of Bicep – Christmas edition with Esther Barthel and Freek Berson
• Day 24 - Arm your Bicep with D(i)SC - how to make your life easier while building new environments - 2021
• Embrace Infrastructure as Code Right Now With Azure Bicep - Nashville Azure Users Group - Feb 18, 2022
• Getting Started with Azure Bicep
• Mert to the Future #10 - Using Bicep to Create Your Azure Data Solution with Heini Ilmarinen
• Project Bicep Azure Infrastructure as Code (ARM Template Alternative) - Feb 22, 2021
• Transforming ARM into Azure Bicep
• Understanding and Using Project BICEP - The NEW Azure Deployment Technology

Community Podcasts

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• 079 - We're talking about Azure Bicep
• EP7: Getting Started with Azure Bicep
• Episode 21: Bicep with Alex Frankel
• How to deploy an SAP system using Azure Bicep

Community Books

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• Azure Infrastructure as Code - With ARM templates and Bicep
• Getting started with Bicep: Infrastructure as code
• Infrastructure as Code with Azure Bicep

Community Articles

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• A Gentle Introduction to Bicep
• ARM Templates Or Azure Bicep — What Should I Use?
• ARM Templates Or Azure Bicep — What Should I Use?
• Azure Bicep Playground: Transitioning from ARM templates into Bicep
• Azure Bicep posts on Cloud Marathoner's Journey
• Azure Bicep: Getting started guide
• Azure Budgets leveraging Bicep Registries
• Checkov now supports scan Bicep- Bicep + Checkov + Azure DevOps
• Chicken and the Egg: How to Handle Bicep Interdependencies
• Creating Reusable Infrastructure as Code Part 2: Creating Modules with Azure Bicep
• Deploy Azure Infrastructure with Azure Bicep
• Deploy Ubuntu VM with Prometheus and Grafana using Bicep Language
• Deploying Azure Bicep using GitHub Actions
• Get a consistent Azure naming convention with Bicep modules
• Getting started with Project Bicep for Azure ARM
• Hardening parameter inputs on Azure Bicep files
• Project Bicep: ARM Templates Re-Imagined
• Simplifying Azure IaC with Azure Bicep child resources
• What are the good options to manage sensitive info in Azure Bicep?
• What is new in Azure Bicep v0.4?
• Whitelisting your Public IP with Azure Bicep and PowerShell
• Why is Azure Bicep your next choice for Infrastructure As Code?

Community Tools

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• ARM (and Bicep) Template Toolkit Azure DevOps Extension
• AzAdvertizer
• Bicep Playground
• NubesGen - Automatically generate bicep for your project

Community Repositories

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• Ba4bes/Bicep-NamingConvention
• ElYusubov/Learn-Bicep
• fberson/Getting-started-with-Bicep-Infrastructure-as-code-on-Azure
• fberson/wvd
• gbaeke/aks-bicep
• globalbao/azure-policy-as-code
• jamesatighe/AVD-BICEP
• jaydestro/aksbicep
• lordlinus/databricks-all-in-one-bicep-template
• Packt Publishing - IaC with Azure Bicep
• PSBicep - Bicep PowerShell Module
• PSBicep/BicepNet - A thin wrapper around Bicep that will load all bicep assemblies in a separate context
• scautomation/Bicep-AzureMonitor-Sentinel
• Welasco/Bicep - Create Private AKS Cluster using Bicep
• your-azure-coach/bicep-azdevops

Community Forums

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• Stackoverflow with Azure Bicep