Infrastructure as Code with Azure Bicep: Streamline Azure resource deployment by bypassing ARM complexities

Azure Bicep is hot!If you’ve ever worked with ARM Templates, you know it’s hard to learn the JSON language, (the current ARM Template syntax) and write complex templates. After years of manipulating ARM templates, Microsoft has come up with a more than decent alternative: A domain specific language (DSL) called Bicep, that allows its users to automate Infrastructure As Code (IAC) deployments.In this book you will find a lot of practical advice and examples. After reading this book, you will have a solid foundation for planning your own automated deployment process for Azure.The author Yaser Adel Mehraban, has taken his experience and combined a tutorial of the Bicep language with a lot of reference material, best practices and industry standards.The book is structured very well and offers the reader a manageable learning path to get started.Each chapter gives the reader's a good understanding of Bicep and gives an answer to a lot of the typical questions that one has when working in an development (and IAC) context.In section 1: Getting Started with Azure Bicep, you will find following topics:An Introduction to Azure BicepInstalling Azure BicepAuthoring ExperienceCompiling and Decompiling Bicep FilesIn section 2: Azure Bicep Core Concepts, you will find following topics:Defining ResourcesUsing Parameters, Variables, and Template FunctionsUnderstanding Expressions, Symbolic Names, Conditions,and LoopsDefining Modules and Utilizing OutputsIn section 3: Deploying Azure Bicep Templates, you will find following topics:Deploying a Local TemplateDeploying Bicep Using Azure DevOpsDeploying Bicep Templates Using GitHub ActionsExploring Best Practices for Future MaintenanceSimply put, this is the must-have book for anyone who is involved into Infrastructure as Code with Azure Bicep!

This book short at only 280 pages in large font. and was very basic.you can get all the information that this book covers for free in 2 or 3 Microsoft learn modules. Not worth the money I am sorry to say