Bicep documentation

Bicep is a language for declaratively deploying Azure resources. You can use Bicep instead of JSON for developing your Azure Resource Manager templates (ARM templates).

Bicep

Overview

• What is Bicep?

video

• Ignite 2021 presentation
• Learn live - Bicep
• Learn Live - Bicep and GitHub Actions

Get started

Quickstart

• Create Bicep files - VS Code
• Create Bicep files - Visual Studio
• Create and deploy template specs
• Create deployment stacks
• Use private module registry
• Create and deploy Microsoft Graph resources

Training

• Fundamentals of Bicep
• Intermediate Bicep
• Advanced Bicep

Author Bicep files

How-To Guide

• Bicep file structure & syntax
• Define parameters
• Define variables
• Define resources
• Define modules
• Define outputs
• User-defined data types
• User-defined functions

Reference

• Functions
• Operators
• Data types
• Azure Quickstart Templates

Deploy Bicep files

Quickstart

• Bicep with pipelines
• Bicep with GitHub Actions

How-To Guide

• PowerShell
• Azure CLI
• Cloud Shell
• What-if deployment

Scoped deployments

How-To Guide

• Resource group
• Subscription
• Management group
• Tenant
• Scoping extension resource

Guidance & patterns

How-To Guide

• Best practices
• Configuration set pattern
• Shared variable file pattern

Explore reference content

Reference

• Bicep resource reference
• Microsoft Graph Bicep reference
• Azure PowerShell
• Azure CLI