Day Two Cloud 139: Azure Bicep Is (Not) ARM

Today’s Day Two Cloud episode is about Infrastructure as Code (IaC). More specifically, we work out with Azure Bicep. According to Microsoft, Bicep is “a domain-specific language (DSL) that uses declarative syntax to deploy Azure resources. In a Bicep file, you define the infrastructure you want to deploy to Azure, and then use that file throughout the development lifecycle to repeatedly deploy your infrastructure.” In other words, the goal of Bicep is to help folks deploy Azure cloud resources consistently using a human-readable syntax. Our guides to Bicep are Ben Weissman at Solisyon, Rob Sewell of Sewells Consulting. We discuss: * Why IaC might take a long time on your first deployment, but then make future deployments faster * Details on Azure Bicep * How Azure Bicep relates to Azure Resource Manager (ARM) * A Bicep workflow * Bicep and the DevOps pipeline * Security guidelines * Bicep vs. Terraform * More Sponsor: StrongDM StrongDM is secure infrastructure access for the modern stack. StrongDM proxies connections between your infrastructure and Sysadmins, giving your IT team auditable, policy-driven, IaC-configurable access to whatever they need, wherever they are. Find out more at StrongDM.com/packetpushers. Tech Bytes: Singtel We chat with Mark Seabrook, Global Solutions Manager at Singtel to learn about Singtel WAN offerings that can help make your legacy network cloud-ready. Show Links: Azure Bicep – Azure Deploying Azure Resources Using Bicep – Pluralsight Robsewell.com Rob Sewell’s blogs on Bicep @sqldbawithbeard – Rob Sewell on Twitter Rob Sewell on LinkedIn @bweissman – Ben Weissman on Twitter Ben Weissman on LinkedIn Day Two Cloud 126: Azure Arc And Building A Hybrid Cloud – Packet Pushers Transcript: [00:00:01.570] – Ethan Strongdm is secure infrastructure access for the modern stack, StrongDM proxies connections between your infrastructure and Sysadmins, giving your It team auditable, policy driven IEC configurable access to whatever they need wherever they are. Find out [email protected] PacketPushers. [00:00:25.350] – Ned Welcome to Day Two Cloud. Today we’re going to be talking about an Azure thing called Azure Bicep which is a replacement for Arm templates. You get it? Arm Bicep. It’s kind of what we’re talking about. But we have brought on two experts in Azure Bicep to ...