Episode

Use Bicep to deploy your Azure infrastructure as code Ep1: Introduction to infrastructure as code using Bicep

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Describe the benefits of using infrastructure as code, Azure Resource Manager, and Bicep to quickly and confidently scale your cloud deployments. Determine the types of deployments for which Bicep is a good declarative deployment tool.

Learning objectives

  • Describe the benefits of infrastructure as code
  • Describe the difference between declarative and imperative infrastructure as code
  • Explain what Bicep is, and how it fits into an infrastructure as code approach

Chapters

  • [00:00] - Introduction
  • [04:05] - Learning objectives and introduction
  • [06:57] - What is infrastructure as code?
  • [24:39] - Example
  • [35:42] - Imperative and declarative code, example
  • [44:58] - What is Azure Resource Manager?
  • [58:46] - What is Bicep?
  • [66:02] - How Bicep works
  • [70:32] - When to use Bicep
  • [75:34] - Knowledge Check
  • [82:20] - Summary and conclusion

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