Azure Bicep validation in a pull request with Azure DevOps

In this blog I am going to write about how you can automatically validate Bicep template changes inside a pull request in Azure DevOps. This validation step can help identify errors written in a template or parameter file. These errors can be syntactical or input-based errors. The techniques used in this blog are: Azure CLI, … Continue reading Azure Bicep validation in a pull request with Azure DevOps →

Reference Key Vault secrets using Azure Bicep

Security plays a big role in IT. When you write almost everything as code, you know it is a no-go to write passwords, personal access tokens or other secrets hard-coded and commit these in your source control. To avoid a check-in of secrets in your source control, you can use Azure Key Vault to "host" … Continue reading Reference Key Vault secrets using Azure Bicep →

Convert ARM templates to Azure Bicep

In this blog post, I am going to write about the differences between Azure ARM and Azure Bicep. What is Azure ARM or Bicep, what are the syntactic differences and how you can use Azure CLI to convert your existing ARM templates to Bicep templates. What is Azure ARM or Azure Bicep? Azure ARM and … Continue reading Convert ARM templates to Azure Bicep →