ARM Templates & Bicep

Deploy Azure infrastructure with ARM templates and Bicep. Bicep is the recommended domain-specific language that compiles to ARM JSON, offering cleaner syntax, modules, and first-class tooling support.

Templates are separate illustrative fragments, not a complete resource graph. Module paths and parameter files named here are not bundled. Pin reviewed Bicep/provider API/image versions, verify resource IDs/subscription/region, and inspect What-If and replacement/deletion impact before authorized deployment. Validation/build success does not prove deployability, networking isolation, quotas or safe changes. Deleting a deployment record does not roll back deployed resources.

Prerequisites

# Install Azure CLI
# Prerequisite: organization-approved Azure CLI installed from a verified signed package.
az version

# Install Bicep CLI (bundled with Azure CLI 2.20+)
az bicep install
az bicep upgrade

# Verify installation
az bicep version