Azure Bicep Tips & Tricks
After working with Azure Bicep for some time, I’d like to share the daily tips and tricks that I have gathered. These insights will not only make writing Azure Bicep…
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Create your own custom extension for Azure Bicep
A long-lived dream of many Azure Bicep users has been the ability to deploy outside the Azure environment, similar to what you can do with Terraform. With the experimental Bicep local-deploy feature that dream is becoming a reality! A tool that allows you to connect Azure Bicep to any system…
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