Testing your Bicep modules with PSRule is a great way to identify that your code is meeting Azure best practice. But how do you actually test your Bicep modules with PSRule properly? How can you structure your Git repository? How can I configure PSRule to test the modules? Can I document what the modules do, …
Introduction Finding a robust validation solution for Bicep has been both straight forward and frustrating. We have amazing tools like PSRule (shout out to Bernie for his incredible tool here) for best practice. And more straight forward ones provided natively by Microsoft such as the Bicep linter. However, the problem in my opinion, when it …
Intro Export template in the Azure Portal is a useful tool to lean on when you need to understand a resources properties, syntaxes, and structure. We’ve all been there, deploying some Bicep or ARM, but it’s failing on some SKU or it doesn’t like some syntax. Whilst the MS Docs are usually fantastic at showing …
No more JSON Parameter files!? Well, nearly. The .bicepparam feature is still in experimental mode currently, but looks to be coming soon as part of the future Bicep releases. If you’ve worked on ARM templates or Bicep you will be very familiar with the joys of working with a JSON parameters file. It can be …