Chapter 1: An Introduction to Azure Bicep
In this chapter, you're going to learn what Azure Bicep is, and you'll get a quick bit of background on why it was created and what problems it is trying to solve. There will be a comparison with its predecessor, ARM templates, and at the end, you will learn about some of its limitations.
This chapter will give you insights into the reason why Microsoft went to all the trouble of creating Azure Bicep, even though there are already many different third-party tools out there with similar functionalities and feature sets. It is important to learn the reasoning to be able to learn the language without any bias and make practical use of its powerful features.
In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics:
- What is Azure Bicep?
- Why was it created?
- How does it work?
