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Infrastructure as Code with Azure Bicep

You're reading from   Infrastructure as Code with Azure Bicep Streamline Azure resource deployment by bypassing ARM complexities

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801813747
Length 230 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Yaser Adel Mehraban Yaser Adel Mehraban
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started with Azure Bicep
2. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Azure Bicep FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Installing Azure Bicep 4. Chapter 3: Authoring Experience 5. Chapter 4: Compiling and Decompiling Bicep Files 6. Section 2: Azure Bicep Core Concepts
7. Chapter 5: Defining Resources 8. Chapter 6: Using Parameters, Variables, and Template Functions 9. Chapter 7: Understanding Expressions, Symbolic Names, Conditions, and Loops 10. Chapter 8: Defining Modules and Utilizing Outputs 11. Section 3: Deploying Azure Bicep Templates
12. Chapter 9: Deploying a Local Template 13. Chapter 10: Deploying Bicep Using Azure DevOps 14. Chapter 11: Deploying Bicep Templates Using GitHub Actions 15. Chapter 12: Exploring Best Practices for Future Maintenance 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Template functions

There are many functions that you can leverage to enhance your template. These functions give you the ability to create complex expressions or dynamic values to be used later in the template. Many of these functions work with specific data types that we have seen before, such as arrays, strings, objects, and integers. However, there are also functions that are designed to help you create logical flows or get a scope to apply your template to. Let's start with generic functions first.

The any function

The any function allows you to resolve issues around data types when you are not sure of a property's type. This could be in a case when the property expects you to pass an integer, but you need to pass it as a string, that is, ('0.5'). Here is an example of the any function in practice:

publicIPAddress: any((pipId == '') ? null : {
  id: pipId
})

This function can be assigned to any value in Bicep. Date functions are...

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