Azure Bicep - Zero to Hero
Azure Bicep - Zero to Hero
Deploy and Manage Azure Infrastructure as Code
About the Book
Many are struggling to make ends meet ever since the pandemic started. Therefore, I decided that all proceeds from this book will go to charity.
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) brought in a new deployment model to Microsoft Azure. Unlike the classic deployment model, ARM looks at groups of resources and manages the life cycle of these resource groups from end to end. ARM simplified how you built and managed services on Azure. Along with the ARM deployment model, Microsoft also introduced a new way of provisioning Azure services through Azure Resource Manager templates. These templates are based on JSON data representation and provided a declarative way to define your Azure infrastructure. ARM templates offer a great way to automate infrastructure provisioning and integrate well into the infrastructure as code practices. However, using JSON data representation for ARM template language makes it too complex to read and write more extensive infrastructure definitions. For users getting started with Azure infrastructure deployments, this can be a nightmare.
Enter Azure Bicep. Bicep language is a transparent abstraction over ARM template language. Azure Bicep templates traspile to ARM JSON templates. Bicep language is easy to learn and very simple to read and write. Being a transparent abstraction on top of ARM templates, Bicep supports the same resource types and properties. By building on top of resource specification API as the backend, Bicep enables day-zero support for any new resource introduced as an Azure service.
This book focuses on deploying and managing Azure infrastructure with Bicep and covers everything that you need to know right from basics to the advanced usage of Bicep language to create complex Azure infrastructure configurations and implementing continuous pipelines for your Azure infrastructure configurations.
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Table of Contents
- Part 1
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Introduction
- Infrastructure As Code
- Azure Resource Manager
- Why Bicep
- Introducing Bicep
- Summary
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Getting Started
- Installing Bicep CLI
- Authoring Bicep templates
- First Bicep template
- Compiling and deploying Bicep templates
- Summary
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Working with resources
- Defining resources
- Resource dependencies
- Child resources
- Extension Resources
- Reference existing resources
- Scoped resource deployment
- Summary
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Authoring reusable templates
- Parameters
- Parameter decorators
- Output
- Generating Parameter files
- Summary
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Variables, functions, and expressions
- Summary
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Iterations and Conditions
- Iterations
- Sequential deployments
- Conditional deployments
- Combining iterations and conditions
- Summary
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Creating and Consuming Modules
- Creating modules
- Consuming modules
- Iterations and conditions
- Deploying at multiple scopes
- Sharing modules
- Module aliases
- Summary
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Developing Bicep templates in VS Code devcontainers
- Visual Studio Code Development Containers
- GitHub Codespaces
- Summary
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CI and CD of Bicep templates
- Customizing linter rules
- Build and deploy
- A local pipeline
- GitHub actions for CI/CD
- Summary
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Built-in function primer
- any function
- loadJsonContent function
- getSecret function
- Summary
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User-defined types
- Defining custom types
- Exporting and importing custom types
- Summary
- Part 2
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Provisioning a Kubernetes Cluster
- Kubernetes cluster architecture
- Bicep template structure
- Provisioning workflow
- Summary
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