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).

Get started

Overview

• What is Bicep?

Get started

• Install Bicep tools
• Decompile JSON to Bicep

Quickstart

• Create Bicep files - VS Code
• Create Bicep files - Visual Studio
• Create and deploy template specs
• Create deployment stacks

Training

• Fundamentals of Bicep
• Intermediate Bicep
• Advanced Bicep
• Deployment stacks

video

• Learn live - Bicep
• Learn Live - Bicep and GitHub Actions

How-To Guide

• Best practices

Author Bicep files

How-To Guide

• Bicep file structure & syntax
• Define resources
• Define modules
• User-defined data types
• User-defined functions
• Create parameters file
• Use iterative loops
• Use conditionals
• Reference existing resources
• Use deployment script

Reference

• Data types
• Functions
• Operators

Deploy Bicep files

How-To Guide

• Deploy with Azure CLI
• Deploy with Azure PowerShell
• Deploy with Cloud Shell
• Use What-if operation

Quickstart

• Bicep with pipelines
• Bicep with GitHub Actions

Patterns

How-To Guide

• Configuration set pattern
• Shared variable file pattern

Deployment scopes

How-To Guide

• Resource group scope
• Subscription scope
• Management group scope
• Tenant scope
• Scope extension resource

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Reference

• Bicep resource reference
• Azure Quickstart Templates
• Bicep CLI reference
• Bicep warning and error codes
• Azure CLI reference
• Azure PowerShell reference
• Microsoft Graph Bicep reference