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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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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

Bicep best practices

Like any other IaC tool, Bicep requires some discipline to make sure that if you look at your templates in a few years, when the original developers might have left the team, the new members can still read and modify them without any issues.

Parameters

Starting with parameters, the very first recommendation is to choose a good naming convention, document it, and stick to it. Make sure your resource names are clear, it's easy to pinpoint their role, and they are easy to find. Keep all the parameter definitions at the top of the template to make it easier to review, add, or remove them in the future. You can also refer to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/ready/azure-best-practices/resource-naming to find some of the most used conventions and best practices published by Microsoft.

Limit the values for your parameters using the @allowed decorator to reduce the risk of a user passing an invalid or impractical value to your...

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