Blueprints Roadmap

Question

Hi,

What is the roadmap for Blueprints? It seems a bit vague in terms of updates and where its going? The feature feedback portal are mostly updates from a year ago.

Answer 1

Hi @Stuart Wepener ,

Most of the Blueprint resourcing is going towards Template Specs (video overview) and Deployment Stacks, which is what Blueprints are eventually going to use under the covers. For authoring improvements, focus is bicep. The GA (General Availability) ETA is set for March/April when the new underlying resource types (template specs and deployment stacks) are ready and we can migrate everything over.

More info in this talk:

• Blueprints migration plan
• Deployment stacks overview

Most of the Blueprint UserVoice asks are either already implemented in Templates/Template Specs, or they are something we will address with above mentioned future improvements to templates/bicep and stacks.

Lastly, even though the Blueprint service is listed as “Preview”, we treat the service as GA, which means even once a migration path is made available, we will continue to support the current Blueprint APIs for 1-3 years or until everyone has been migrated.

Answer 2

where is the latest docs for DeploymentStacks?

Answer 3

I just found this proving that deployment stacks are going to be a thing
https://livebook.manning.com/book/azure-infrastructure-as-code/chapter-11/78

Also if you run the following you should see DeploymentStacksPreview

az feature list -o table --query "[?contains(name, 'Microsoft.Resources/DeploymentStacksPreview')].{Name:name,State:properties.state}"

and you can register with this

az feature register --namespace "Microsoft.Resources" --name "DeploymentStacksPreview"