Bicep - Json format

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Bicep is a json format created in 2020 by Anthony Martin.

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Download source code:

git clone https://github.com/Azure/bicep

Source Code

Bicep is a Domain Specific Language (DSL) for deploying Azure resources declaratively.

Tags: jsonFormat
Bicep is developed on GitHub and has 3,181 stars
There are at least 2,562 Bicep repos on GitHub
Early development of Bicep happened in Microsoft
Bicep compiles to ARM Templates
Bicep is written in C#, JSON, TypeScript, SVG, XML, HTML, Markdown, YAML, JavaScript, PowerShell, Bourne shell, CSS
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 13 users using Bicep in 17 repos on GitHub
Monaco package for syntax highlighting Bicep
Read more about Bicep on the web: 1.

Example from the web:

@minLength(3)
@maxLength(11)
param storagePrefix string

param storageSKU string = 'Standard_LRS'
param location string = resourceGroup().location

var uniqueStorageName = '${storagePrefix}${uniqueString(resourceGroup().id)}'

resource stg 'Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts@2019-04-01' = {
  name: uniqueStorageName
  location: location
  sku: {
    name: storageSKU
  }
  kind: 'StorageV2'
  properties: {
    supportsHttpsTrafficOnly: true
  }
}

module webModule './webApp.bicep' = {
  name: 'webDeploy'
  params: {
    skuName: 'S1'
    location: location
  }
}

output storageEndpoint object = stg.properties.primaryEndpoints

Bicep Keywords

targetScope resource module param var output for in if existing

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Conditionals	✓
Comments	✓	// A comment
MultiLine Comments	✓	/* A comment */	/* */
Line Comments	✓	// A comment	//