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For organizations starting a greenfield deployment of Azure infrastructure and having no prior investment in other configuration languages such as Terraform, Azure Bicep would be a great option. It offers a simple language that allows condensing the native ARM JSON templates exponentially. It supports all features and services in Azure immediately, even those in preview, and it has deep integration with other Azure services such as Azure Policy. The popular VS Code IDE (another Microsoft product), as you would expect, has robust features and supporting functionality for the Azure Bicep configuration language. People who wear this brace tend to like it for some pain reduction during functional activities, meaning they are pretty far along in their recovery, or are dealing with more nagging injuries. For example, working out or doing yard work or housework that requires a lot of arm movement seem to be the best applications.
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No cost and open source: Bicep is completely free. You don't have to pay for premium capabilities. It's also supported by Microsoft support. The language should provide a transparent abstraction for the underlying platform. There must be no "onboarding step" to enable Bicep support for a new resource type and/or api version.Below is a comparison of Azure Bicep code on the left, with ARM template JSON code on the right. They both are performing the same operation. However, as you can see below, the Azure Bicep code is much simpler and more concise. Bicep provides intellisense for the core language and extends to support type definitions for all resource types in Azure. Dot-property access
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The bicep language service supports document symbols, which help power a broad set of code navigation features. Go to definition, peek definition Fundamentally, we believe that configuration languages and tools are always going to be polyglot and different users will prefer different tools for different situations. We want to make sure all of these tools are great on Azure, Bicep is only a part of that effort.ARM is an acronym that stands for Azure Resource Manager in Azure. Azure Resource Manager (ARM) is the native platform for Infrastructure as Code in Azure. The Azure ARM deployment and management services provide a management layer to create, modify, and remove Azure resources. For example, when a DevOps engineer sends a request from a tool such as Terraform or Azure Bicep, the Azure Resource Manager authorizes the user and then sends the request to the Azure service, which then acts. Integration with Azure services: Bicep is integrated with Azure services such as Azure Policy, template specs, and Blueprints.
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Using Terraform can be a great choice depending on the requirements of the organization, and if you are happy using Terraform there is no reason to switch. At Microsoft, we have teams actively investing to make sure the Terraform on Azure experience is the best it can be.Build the best possible language for describing, validating, and deploying infrastructure to Azure. To keep up to date with the latest Hyper-V best practices, become a member of the Altaro DOJO | Hyper-V now (it’s free). Conclusion
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