An early look at what is coming very soon with Deployments Stacks in Azure, how to use them, and how this further empowers your Bicep templates! Spoiler alert: it’s awesome! 💪 💪 What is the challenge? Azure deployments at scale also introduce life cycle management issues at scale. Ideally all…

Using the same programming language style guide within your team, department, or company is great! It simplifies team efforts to work on the same code and contributes to reusability of code. This applies to any programming language, scripting language and Infrastructure as Code language such as Bicep for Azure. As…

You might have seen my post a few days ago on Bicep parameter files. That was based on an experimental feature. Bicep version 0.18.4 is released now which, amongst other features and fixes, contains support for the new bicep parameter files! Time to upgrade!

It’s probably the most heard question whenever I provide a talk on Bicep and dive into deploying Bicep files and the options to provide parameters: “Why is the parameters file you use while deploying a Bicep template to Azure still of type JSON?” A very valid question, and this is…

Linter rules are a very powerful feature of the Bicep Infrastructure as Code language for Azure. Based on Linter rules, you can check your Bicep templates for syntax errors and best practice violations. Complying with coding standards improves your overall Bicep template quality. Linter rules were introduced in version 0.4…

One of the great benefits of Bicep Infrastructure is Code is reusing your code. Leveraging modules within Bicep is the perfect example of that. By using these features of Bicep, you can write reusable code that can be shared and used across multiple deployments. …

In you are into Infrastructure as Code for Azure, you probably have heard about Bicep by now, or maybe (hopefully) you’re actively using it. If not, this blog post provides some guidance to help you with your personal transformation (or should I say transpilation 😊) towards using Bicep. …

Background Are you using Microsoft Native Remote Desktop Gateway (RDGW) in combination with the NPS extension to secure your RDGW with MFA? Prepare for this change which will be enforced tenant-wide for all users starting February 27, 2023! Number matching is a security upgrade to traditional second factor notifications in…

I’m sure that by now many have heard about ChatGPT. If not, ChatGPT is a large language model developed by OpenAI. It is based on the GPT (Generative Pre-training Transformer) architecture, which was trained on a massive amount of text data to generate human-like text. ChatGPT is fine-tuned to perform…