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Day 106 - Azure Bicep: up and running in 10 minutes

Today, we're going to get you up and running on a new technology some at Microsoft have called "the future of deployment in Azure" - Azure Bicep! In fact, we'll cover the key concepts, steps to install Bicep, author and deploy a template in a little over 10 minutes!

All the resources mentioned in the video are included in this article.

In this installment:

Video
Scripts
Bicep Templates
Documentation Links
Conclusion

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Video

You can find the video tutorial for today's installment on Youtube at https://youtu.be/B1YIA3bs5u8

Scripts

Below are scripts run in Ryan's demo.

Installing Bicep on Linux

# Install Bicep.
curl -Lo bicep https://github.com/Azure/bicep/releases/latest/download/bicep-linux-x64 && \
chmod +x ./bicep && \
sudo mv ./bicep /usr/local/bin/bicep

Installing Bicep on Windows

<#

A Big 'Thank You!' to Microsoft MVP Chris Pietschmann and Founder of https://build5nines.com

powershell.exe -noprofile -executionpolicy bypass -file scripts\powershell\install-bicep.ps1

#>

# Create the installation folder.
$installPath = "$env:USERPROFILE\.bicep"
$installDir = New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path $installPath -Force
$installDir.Attributes += 'Hidden'

# Fetch the latest Bicep CLI binary
(New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadFile("https://github.com/Azure/bicep/releases/latest/download/bicep-win-x64.exe", "$installPath\bicep.exe")

# Add bicep to your PATH
$currentPath = (Get-Item -path "HKCU:\Environment" ).GetValue('Path', '', 'DoNotExpandEnvironmentNames')
if (-not $currentPath.Contains("%USERPROFILE%\.bicep")) { setx PATH ($currentPath + ";%USERPROFILE%\.bicep") }
if (-not $env:path.Contains($installPath)) { $env:path += ";$installPath" }

Processing Bicep Files in PowerShell

$BicepFiles = Get-ChildItem .\templates\ -Recurse 

foreach ($file in $BicepFiles)
{
    bicep build $file
}

Bicep Templates

The templates shown in the video are provided below. You can also find downloadable versions here in the Github repo HERE

resourceGroup.bicep

This bicep file drives an Azure resource group deployment.

/*

Template: resourceGroup.bicep

*/

// Standard Parameters.
param rgName string
param azLoc string

// Tag Parameters.
param rgTagName string
param rgTagEnvName string
param rgTagDeployedBy string

// Resource Group Template.
resource resourcGroup 'Microsoft.Resources/resourceGroups@2020-06-01' = {
  name: rgName
  location: azLoc
  tags:{
    Name: rgTagName
    Environment: rgTagEnvName
    DeployedBy: rgTagDeployedBy
  }
}

storageAccount.bicep

This bicep file drives an Azure storage account deployment.

/*

Template: storageAccount.bicep

*/

// Standard Parameters.
param strName string
param strSku string
param strKind string
param strAccessTier string
param strSupportHttpsTrafficOnly bool
param strMinimumTlsVersion string
param azLoc string

// Tag Parameters.
param strTagName string
param strTagEnvName string
param strTagDeployedBy string

// Storage Account Template.
resource storageAccount 'Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts@2019-06-01' = {
  name: strName
  location: azLoc
  kind: strKind
  sku: {
    name: strSku
  }
  properties: {
    accessTier: strAccessTier
    supportsHttpsTrafficOnly: strSupportHttpsTrafficOnly
    minimumTlsVersion: strMinimumTlsVersion
  }
  tags:{
    Name: strTagName
    Environment: strTagEnvName
    DeployedBy: strTagDeployedBy
  }
}

Documentation Links

Azure Bicep documentation on Github https://github.com/azure/bicep

Bicep resources from Build5nines.com. https://build5nines.com/get-started-with-azure-bicep/

Conclusion

We hope you enjoyed today's installment. If you have questions about this lesson or suggestions for future videos, leave us a comment here in the repo or reach out on LinkedIn for a chat!