Infrastructure as Code Archives - Claudio Bernasconi

Introduction to Bicep – The Evolution of ARM Templates

by Claudio Bernasconi | Aug 1, 2023 | Infrastructure as Code

Bicep is a transpiler that transforms domain-specific language (DSL) into ARM templates. It’s the next generation of Microsoft’s infrastructure as code (IaC) tooling. It works similarly to writing TypeScript, which is transpiled into JavaScript for running...

Creating Azure Resources like a Pro using ARM Templates

by Claudio Bernasconi | Jul 9, 2023 | Infrastructure as Code

We will create an ARM Template to create an Azure Web App and use the Azure CLI to run the ARM Template to create the resources on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. ARM Templates ARM stands for Azure Resource Manager. It’s a Microsoft technology that allows us...

What Is Infrastructure as Code?

by Claudio Bernasconi | Jun 30, 2023 | Infrastructure as Code

As a .NET developer, I host most of my applications on Microsoft Azure. I have a few simple web apps, and I also run a SaaS product on Azure. It includes an Azure SQL Server instance and multiple Web Apps running on an App Service Plan. It also uses Azure Functions...