December 2020: ARM Template For The Win & Bicep by Marcel Zehner (Video in description)

Video recording available here: https://youtu.be/TiyLjZdzLQg

In this session, Microsoft RD & Azure MVP will shed some light on ARM-templates-based Azure deployments. ARM templates use a declarative approach to deploy and maintain Azure-based services. Using JSON files allows you to describe services, configurations or relations. Wait what? JSON-files? Are you worried about writing those beasts yourself? Stay calm as Marcel will introduce you to a brand new language that makes the development of ARM templates much easier.

Bio:
I am a cloud and community champion operating out of Switzerland. I support community conferences and events around the globe with my Microsoft cloud expertise. I am a Microsoft Regional Director and a long-time Microsoft MVP and head of the Microsoft community events "Experts Live Europe" and "Experts Live Switzerland".

More information about me can be found on http://about.me/marcelzehner.

Transcript

1. ARM Templates For The Win! Marcel Zehner | SoftwareONE Microsoft Regional Director Microsoft Azure MVP marcelzehner.ch @marcelzehner
2. ▪ SoftwareONE ▪ Bern-Switzerland ▪ Microsoft Regional Director ▪ Microsoft Azure MVP ▪ IT & tech geek ▪ Speaker & blogger ▪ Community champion ▪ Experts Live EU & CH
3. Azure Resource Manager & ARM Templates Overview Introduction to BicepLang What to expect
4. What NOT to expect Infra as Code overview ARM Templates Deep Dive Code management & pipelines Full DevOps story
5. Azure Resource Manager & ARM Templates
6. Azure Resource Manager ▪ Deployment and management service for Azure ▪ Consistent management layer ▪ Create, update and delete resources ▪ Used by ▪ Azure Portal, Azure CLI ▪ PowerShell Scripts ▪ Etc. ▪ Can accept ARM templates
7. Azure Resource Providers Azure Resource Types Azure Portal, Marketplace, Scripts, ARM Templates etc. Azure Resource Provider Operations
8. ARM Templates ▪ Declarative approach ▪ JSON files ▪ Initial provisioning ▪ Service maintenance ▪ Lifecycle management
9. Define resources with dependencies Parametrize, submit values at deployment time Hardcode or calculate values used in resources section Output data from a deployment
10. 2 Approaches ▪ Single template ▪ Normal or nested ▪ Linked templates
11. Deployment Scopes ▪ Resource Group ▪ Subscription ▪ Management Group ▪ Tenant
12. Applying ARM Templates ▪ Portal ▪ PowerShell ▪ Azure CLI ▪ More advanced approaches (e.g. pipelines)
13. Live Demo
14. Introduction to BicepLang
15. Issues with ARM Templates ▪ Complex to develop ▪ Not-so-easy to read ▪ [{,,}{,,(),,(,,)}]{,,},(),{}(,)] ⚔ ▪ Lots of code needed
16. BicepLang ▪ New domain-specific language (DSL) ▪ Describe and deploy infrastructure to Azure ▪ Transparent abstraction for JSON ARM templates ▪ Easy-to-write/read
17. Bicep Config Files ARM Templates Azure Resource Manager Azure Resources Compile Handover Deploy
18. Bicep Tooling ▪ VS Code Extension ▪ Write and validate Bicep configs ▪ .bicep files ▪ Bicep CLI ▪ Build ARM template from Bicep config ▪ Decompile ARM template to Bicep config
19. Live Demo
20. Takeaways Azure is cool ARM templates are cool Bicep is cool Learn all of these
21. marcelzehner.ch @marcelzehner youtube.com/MarcelZehner
22. ARM Templates For The Win! Marcel Zehner | SoftwareONE Microsoft Regional Director Microsoft Azure MVP marcelzehner.ch @marcelzehner