Bicep Local Extensions

Azure Bicep has always been focused on the Azure Cloud. However, with an experimental feature, that is going to change.

When creating resources using Infrastructure as Code, regardless of the language, the backing call is using standard API endpoints. IaC is a wrapper around API endpoints, …

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Overview

One of the goals of Infrastructure as Code is to allow the templates to be reusable. To enable this in Bicep, rather than hardcoding values in the templates themselves, you would use a separate parameter file. Originally, only the JSON based parameter file that was used for the ARM Templates could be used but …

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Did you know you can share artifacts between builds in Azure Pipelines?

One scenario for this is a single repository with scripts that multiple pipelines in an Azure DevOps Project need to use. I've utilized this feature regularly and it helps with reducing repetition and potential manual mistakes (Don't Repeat …

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Azure Updates 01/11/2025

Microsoft provides a page listing all the planned updates for Azure related resources - Azure Updates. There are filters for different Azure resource types, status, etc. so you can filter the list to find what is most relevant and important to you.

I plan to review this page regularly and post …

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Hello World!

My name is Susan. I am a DevOps/Cloud Engineer with a focus in Azure.

It is a new year so obviously the time when we all start our goals of rebranding and starting a new blog! This goal is as much for my knowledge gain as it is to help any of you that stumble across it. A public space to keep my notes and …

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