Infrastructure As Code with Bicep Hackathon

DevOps is a journey not a destination. Implementing Infrastructure-as-Code is one of the first steps you will need to take! 

When implementing an application environment in the cloud, it is important to have a repeatable way to deploy the underlying infrastructure components as well as your software into the target environment. This includes resources such as: 

• Virtual Networks, Network Security Groups (Firewalls), Public IPs, Virtual Machines, Storage (Disks) 
• PaaS Services (Azure SQL, App Service, etc) 
• Configuration Management (installing & configuring software on VMs) 

The best way to make deployments repeatable is to define them with code, hence the term “Infrastructure as Code” (aka IAC). There are multiple technologies that enable you to achieve this. Some of these include: 

• ARM Templates with JSON 
• ARM Templates with Bicep 
• PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) 
• HashiCorp’s Terraform & Packer 
• Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Salt Stack, and others 

This hack is focused on using Bicep to implement your IaC. It does not mean this is the only way to implement IaC, it’s just one of many ways. If you want to learn how to do IaC in Azure with other technologies, try one of our other IaC hacks for ARM Templates & PowerShell DSC, Terraform or Ansible.