Bicep - Json format

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

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

Bicep is a declarative language for describing and deploying Azure resources

Bicep is developed on GitHub and has 2,438 stars
There are at least 2,562 Bicep repos on GitHub
Bicep first developed in Microsoft
Bicep compiles to ARM Templates
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	Token	Example
Conditionals	✓
Comments	✓		// A comment
MultiLine Comments	✓	/* */	/* A comment */
Line Comments	✓	//	// A comment