Subnetting in Azure Bicep

In this blog, I am writing about Bicep CIDR functions and will show a practical example on how to use this. With these CIDR functions subnetting in Bicep has been made easier. We can now create subnets programmatically.

What is CIDR?

CIDR stands for Classless Inter-Domain Routing and it…

21/08/2023 Article Bloggers John Lokerse

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