Azure Bicep - Infrastructure as Code

Azure Bicep - Infrastructure as Code

Azure Bicep is a domain-specific language (DSL) that simplifies the authoring experience for Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates. It provides a more concise syntax and better support for code reuse.

Key Features

  • Simpler syntax: Cleaner and easier to read than ARM JSON templates
  • Type safety: Catch errors before deployment with built-in type validation
  • Module support: Reuse code through modular template development
  • IDE integration: Great tooling support with VS Code and IntelliJ
  • Automatic dependency management: No need to manually specify dependencies

Basic Example

param location string = 'westeurope'
param storageName string

resource storageAccount 'Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts@2021-06-01' = {
  name: storageName
  location: location
  sku: {
    name: 'Standard_LRS'
  }
  kind: 'StorageV2'
}

Bicep helps you manage Azure infrastructure more efficiently while reducing the complexity and verbosity of JSON-based ARM templates.