Introduction to Azure Bicep: The Next-Gen IaC for Azure Resources

Introduction

For years, authoring infrastructure configurations natively on Microsoft Azure meant working extensively with Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates. Bicep acts as a transparent abstraction layer over ARM templates. Anything possible in an ARM template is immediately possible in Bicep, with a cleaner syntax and easier maintenance footprint.

Bicep Resource Definition Example

param storageAccountName string
param location string = resourceGroup().location

resource storageAccount 'Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts@2023-01-01' = {
  name: storageAccountName
  location: location
  sku: {
    name: 'Standard_LRS'
  }
  kind: 'StorageV2'
}