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We’ve just finished Microsoft Build! There were so many sessions to take part in! I wanted to spend some time using one of the amazing things that have come out of this huge event. I have been playing with with Azure Bicep, a new Microsoft approach to deploying Azure resources using Infrastructure as Code. Today I’d like to show you how to create a basic template and deploy it to Azure. Then I will look at how quickstart templates are converted in the Bicep Playground. We’ll look at the Bicep CLI install, the VS Code plug-in, and of course Azure CLI.

Bicep is a Domain Specific Language (DSL) for creating your Azure resources. While there are various methods for writing infrastructure as code (IaC), such as Ruby, etc. Bicep aims to reduce complexity by introducing a cleaner syntax for you to reuse your code more often. Bicep is a transparent abstraction of ARM templates, which differs from using another general-purpose programming language. Just like ARM templates, Bicep relies on the JSON syntax to compile and deploy your desired infrastructure.

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