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Sorry for the delay on this - was waiting for one last follow-up response.
Here is a summary of the questions and answers from the Azure Deployments AMA.
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- Is there a good reference or best practise recommendation on how to organize IaC code in repositories in regards to pure deployment code and configuration/parameter code (split?)
- bmoore-msft
Microsoft
IDK know of a good reference or hard/fast rule. A few things to consider:
- never put secrets in source control - so if you have params that are secret, you need another store for those (github, azdo, keyvault)
- do you want [all] param/config changes to go through the same "test" that your deployment code does (e.g. do you want validate parameters in a pipeline or test) - and in some cases you may specifically *not* want this
- I see a mix of both in practice - some params are all on source control, others use pipeline/deploy time variables
Happy to expand more if you have more questions...
- Hi Team, Thanks for the time. I recently earned AZ 204 certification for Azure Developer. Can you please introduce me to these rollouts and biceps please
- Is there any certification available for them ?
- stevenjmaHey Kiruthika! As of now there's no certificates available specifically for the ARM deployments products (Bicep, Terraform, ARM Templates)
stephanieyenWe have a great learning path on MS Learn to get started and deep dive into Bicep here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/bicep/learn-bicep . Is this what you are looking for?- Yeah! thanks
- How far are we from having parity across ARM Templates, Bicep and Terraform? Right now we struggle with some deployments of Bicep and Terraform because they lag behind ARM. Thanks
- bmoore-msftParity is certainly a journey - and we're building more generic capabilities as a stop gap. TF has the AzAPI provider that will allow you to access anything in the platform. Bicep allows for nested deployments/modules that help. That said - we'd love specific feedback on where you're running into parity problems, it helps prioritize...
- stephanieyenCan you please explain further the lag that you have been experiencing with Bicep behind ARM?
Mark GrayAs far as Terraform is concerned, we have released the AzAPI provider which, like Bicep, supports all Azure services including preview services on day 0.
- Is there a document which can help to understand the core functions & configuration part?
- Try to use Microsoft docs, the oldest information is as old as new.
- bmoore-msftAlpesh - can you expand a bit more on what you mean by core/config?
- Hey Brian I meant to in brief document on functions of bicep
- Hi there, Martin here from Germany. I learned Azure Basics and want to start scripting AzDeployment. What is an easy way for new rollouts, biceps? And by what technique/tool it is easy to manage or alter an environment. Should it be Infrastructure by code completely? Regards, Martin
- adotfrank
For getting started, some people find it easier to use Az CLI or Azure PowerShell. They tend to be more familiar for those with IT backgrounds and have done powershell or bash scripting. The issue with those tools is they tend not to scale well as your deployments get more complex -- they deploy resources serially instead of in parallel for example.
If you want to use one of the declarative tools, then both Terraform and Bicep are great options. We offer some introductory guides for both tools, which I've linked to below:
* Bicep: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/fundamentals-bicep/
* Terraform: https://learn.hashicorp.com/collections/terraform/azure-get-started
- ok, thank you. I did not have a look at the tools yet. I think of deploying and maintaning environments as an MSP. Or maybe rollout a PoC. We want to enhance our powershell-rollouts by Bicep or Terraform. The structure of an AVD environment is quite similar. Which one to concentrate on as a newbie?
