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Published inDec 2023
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Kamil Mrzygłód
Kamil Mrzygłód
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Kamil Mrzygłód

Kamil Mrzygłód is a technical lead and technology advisor, working with multiple companies on designing and implementing Azure-based systems and platforms. He's a former Microsoft Azure Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and certified trainer, who shares his knowledge via various channels, including conference speeches and open source projects and contributions. Kamil lives in Poland with his two cats and one dog, dedicating some of his time to video games, cooking, and traveling.
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Migrating to Azure Bicep

Even though ARM templates have become very popular among people and companies working with Microsoft Azure, they’re hardly an ideal solution. As templates are simply JSON documents, they tend to become too verbose and difficult to maintain over time. It’s also difficult to develop a good ecosystem around such a tool because of the characteristics of JSON being a data format, not a real domain-specific language (DSL).

This is why Microsoft decided to take a step forward and proposed a new tool called Bicep. It is 100% compatible with ARM templates but provides a much smoother DevEx experience, better tooling, and IDE support with clean and easy-to-learn syntax. In this section, we’ll try to learn the main Bicep concepts and compare them to the template we created using ARM templates.

Bicep language

Bicep is a DSL, which is somewhat like the Hashicorp Configuration Language (HCL) language used by Terraform (which is another IaC tool...

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Learn Azure Administration - Second Edition
Published in: Dec 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781837636112

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Kamil Mrzygłód

Kamil Mrzygłód is a technical lead and technology advisor, working with multiple companies on designing and implementing Azure-based systems and platforms. He's a former Microsoft Azure Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and certified trainer, who shares his knowledge via various channels, including conference speeches and open source projects and contributions. Kamil lives in Poland with his two cats and one dog, dedicating some of his time to video games, cooking, and traveling.
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