Azure Bicep & DevOps for Infra as Code: Beginner to Ninja

Learn how to professionally write and develop Azure DevOps Infrastructure as Code with BICEP, YAML, Git and PowerShell

Created by: David Charles Academy
Senior Big Data Engineer / Consultant at ABN AMRO

What Will I Learn?

• An in-depth introduction to Infrastructure as Code with the Azure DevOps platform
• A definition of DevOps and how Azure as a SaaS (Software as a Service) platform that facilitates the practice of the DevOps methodology
• An Introduction to YAML pipelines on the Azure DevOps platform
• An Introduction to BICEP and ARM templates for developing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) on the Azure DevOps Platform
• An overview of Industry leading DevOps tools
• The creation of a local Git Repository
• Learn how to stage and commit single and multiple files
• Branching management with Git including Merging
• Git with Bash and Visual Studio Code
• Learn how to time travel and undo changes
• Set up Billing for Microsoft and Self Hosted pipeline agents
• Installation and Set Up for a Self Hosted pipeline agents
• Setting up of a Personal Access Token
• Configuration of a Self-Hosted Agent
• How to Create an Azure Service Connection
• Cloning an Azure DevOps Repository
• Writing PowerShell Script to Provision a Resource Group
• How to Add Stages, Jobs and Steps in a YAML pipeline template
• Running the YAML pipeline on Azure DevOps
• How to develop Azure Variables Group and pass them into YAML templates
• How to override BICEP parameters using YAML
• Creating Project Structures for a DevOps and BICEP project using Bash and Git
• Establish a standard naming convention for resources using BICEP and PowerShell
• Development of a BICEP template to provision Log Analytics and Data Factory
• How to add Input Parameters to a BICEP template
• How to create BICEP Modules for Log Analytics and Data Factory
• How to add Tagging Information to BICEP modules
• How to structure a naming convention with BICEP
• How to use run time and compile time variables and parameters
• How to write a PowerShell Script to Transpile BICEP to an ARM template
• How to Manage Dependencies between Resources with BICEP
• How manage BICEP template errors

Requirements

• Some coding experience but not a requirement

Target audience

• Beginners in the Azure DevOps platform
• Data Engineers
• DevOps Engineers
• Data Architects