Learn Live - Introduction to infrastructure as code using Bicep

Full series information: https://aka.ms/learnlive-iac-and-bicep

More info here: https://aka.ms/learnlive-iac-and-bicep-Ep1

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- Microsoft Learn Module: https://aka.ms/learnlive-20220308A

Describe the benefits of using infrastructure as code, Azure Resource Manager, and Bicep to quickly and confidently scale your cloud deployments. Determine the types of deployments for which Bicep is a good declarative deployment tool.

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Learning objectives

- Describe the benefits of infrastructure as code
- Describe the difference between declarative and imperative infrastructure as code
- Explain what Bicep is, and how it fits into an infrastructure as code approach

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Chapters
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00:00 - Introduction
04:08 - Learning objectives and introduction
07:00 - What is infrastructure as code?
24:42 - Example
35:45 - Imperative and declarative code, example
45:01 - What is Azure Resource Manager?
58:49 - What is Bicep?
1:06:05 - How Bicep works
1:10:35 - When to use Bicep
1:15:37 - Knowledge Check
1:22:23 - Summary and conclusion

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Presenters

Stephanie Yen
Program Manager, Azure Deployments
Microsoft
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/StephaniezYen
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-yen-961885162/

Joshua Waddell
Senior Customer Engineer, FastTrack for Azure
Microsoft
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- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-waddell/

Moderators

John Downs
Senior Customer Engineer, FastTrack for Azure
Microsoft
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- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-downs