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Bicep: The Evolution of Azure ARM

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October 28, 2021


Spoiler alert: Despite both bicep and arm being in the title, this has nothing to do with body building. But, if you want to talk about infrastructure as code (IaC) and an easier and more efficient way to implement it on Azure Resource Manager, you are in the right place. Read on. If you were expecting body building tips, watch this

Earlier today, Maik van der Gaag (@maikvandergaag) presented at the All Days DevOps conference on Bicep, a domain-specific language to implement IaC on Azure. Maik is the CTO at 3fifty, founder of the Dutch Cloud Meetup, and is a Microsoft Azure MVP.

He first touches on the value of IaC and why organizations should adopt it: 

  • Save money by delivering stable environments rapidly and at scale
  • Version control
  • Reusability
  • Repeatability
  • Create resource according to strict rules/remove human errors
  • No more configuration drift

Of course, IaC can be implemented in all sorts of environments, but Maik presented on what he knows best – Azure. Azure Resource…



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