This session was delivered at Global Azure Bootcamp India 2021 virtual event. This session introduced Azure Bicep and demonstrated how easy it is to generate ARM templates using Azure Bicep

1. PROJECT BICEP
AN INTRODUCTION TO NEXT GENERATION ARM TEMPLATE AUTHORING
https://github.com/rchaganti/gab2021

2.  Ravikanth Chaganti, Distinguished Member Technical Staff at
Dell EMC
 Technologist working on software-defined storage solutions
and systems management enablement
 Automation fanatic
 Microsoft MVP – Cloud and Data Center Management
(PowerShell)
 Published author:
 Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration Revealed
(Apress)
 Pro PowerShell Desired State Configuration (Apress)
 Terraform with Azure – Zero to Hero (Leanpub) – Coming soon
 Azure Bicep – Zero to Hero (Leanpub) – Coming soon
 Founder and Editor of PowerShell Magazine
Twitter: @Ravikanth
Blog:
ravichaganti.com/blog

3. WHY BICEP
 Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates are verbose
 Become difficult to understand as the complexity of the deployment increases
 Modularity and code re-use has always been a problem
 JSON is really meant for data representation and data exchange

4. WHAT IS BICEP
 A Domain-Specific Language (DSL) for declaratively
deploying Azure resources
 Not a general purpose programming language
 Offers an easier and more concise syntax
 Day 0 support for all Azure resource types and API
versions
 A transparent abstraction over the JSON for ARM
templates
 Each Bicep file transpiles to an ARM template
 Open source: https://github.com/Azure/bicep
 Current version is 0.3 (with production support!)
 Integrated with Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell
Bicep
Language
ARM Template
Azure Resource Manager
bicep build
az deployment group create
Compute Network Storage
+250
Resource
Providers

5. BICEP LANGUAGE FEATURES
 Reusability via parameters
 Complexity reduction via variables, expressions, and built-in functions
 Iterative deployments using different looping constructs
 Conditional deployments
 Scoped deployments
 Modules for reducing template complexity and provide reuse

6. DEMO
BASICS OF BICEP LANGUAGE

7. RESOURCES AND REFERENCES
 Bicep Visual Studio Code extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-
azuretools.vscode-bicep
 Learn everything about the next generation of ARM Templates:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc1kJfcRQgY
 Bicep examples: https://github.com/Azure/bicep/tree/main/docs/examples
 Bicep articles series: https://ravichaganti.com/series/azure-bicep/

8. QUESTIONS
@RAVIKANTH