{"id":522,"date":"2021-09-03T17:20:45","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T17:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecloudmarathoner.com\/?p=522"},"modified":"2021-09-08T00:43:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T00:43:11","slug":"august-month-updates-from-azure-bicep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecloudmarathoner.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/03\/august-month-updates-from-azure-bicep\/","title":{"rendered":"August month updates from Azure Bicep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hi friends,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This month we have awesome updates from Azure bicep team that I am happy to share with all of you (Azure community, Deployment Automation, Resource management and Governance geeks \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"574\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-5-1024x574.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-533\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-5-1024x574.png 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-5-300x168.png 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-5-768x431.png 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-5-1200x673.png 1200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-5.png 1264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The following list are August month updates:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Bicep Linter, Snippets, Scaffolding<\/li><li>Right click build<\/li><li>Deployment Stack updates<\/li><li>Bicep roadmap plans (v0.5 and eventually v1.0)<\/li><li>Bicep registry<\/li><li>OCI Artifact standardizations<\/li><li>Module registry functionality<\/li><li>Module Reference Syntax<\/li><li>Parameter Improvement options<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bicep Linter updates<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The yellow squiggly lines indicate the Linter violations and complains where best practices are violated. Like,<kbd> password param<\/kbd> should not be checked into the code repository. Another one is using <kbd>string concat function<\/kbd> instead of string interpolation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"389\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-524\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image.png 624w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-300x187.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Right click build<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The right click <kbd>build <\/kbd>on bicep file is a new convince feature that was also added on new build.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also use a shortcut keys <kbd>Ctrl+Shift+B<\/kbd> as an alternative way to build your <kbd>JSON files<\/kbd> from bicep files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"373\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-525\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-1.png 624w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-1-300x179.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Scaffolding feature<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>This feature also arrived on a <kbd>v0.4.6 build<\/kbd> that provides <kbd>required-properties<\/kbd> to be auto populated to speed up your Azure resource coding. It is derived from a resources<kbd> swagger spec <\/kbd>and auto-populated for you. Yay!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"193\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-526\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-2.png 624w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-2-300x93.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New Code Snippets<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>You will love to discover that bunch of new snippets has been added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just type<kbd> res-<\/kbd> and you will scroll over all those starter boilplet code. Just imagine how much time you will be saving. It is Huge!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"259\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-527\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-3.png 624w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-3-300x125.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bicep Roadmap annoncements<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, Bicep team annonced that next build will bring the <kbd>v0.5<\/kbd> and they do target <kbd>v1.0 <\/kbd>by th end of the year. What does it mean is &#8211; there will be no API level breaking changes starting from the <kbd>version v1.0.<\/kbd><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"362\" height=\"264\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-528\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-4.png 362w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-4-300x219.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 85vw, 362px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is Next?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep tuned for upcoming <kbd>v0.5 version<\/kbd>. 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