Bicep as ARM simplification in Azure - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Bicep as ARM simplification

📖 Scenario: You are working as a cloud engineer setting up infrastructure on Microsoft Azure. You want to create a simple storage account using Bicep, which is a simpler way to write Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates.This project will guide you step-by-step to create a Bicep file that defines a storage account with basic configuration.

🎯 Goal: Build a Bicep file that defines an Azure Storage Account resource with a specified name, location, and SKU. You will start by defining the resource group location, then add configuration variables, define the storage account resource, and finally add tags to the resource.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a variable for the resource group location

Add a variable for the storage account SKU

Define a storage account resource with the given name, location, and SKU

Add tags to the storage account resource

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Cloud engineers use Bicep to write infrastructure as code for Azure resources more easily and readably than raw ARM JSON templates.

💼 Career

Knowing Bicep helps you automate Azure deployments, improve infrastructure consistency, and collaborate better with teams using modern cloud practices.

1

Define the resource group location variable

Create a variable called location and set it to the string 'eastus' in your Bicep file.

Azure

# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use the var keyword to create a variable in Bicep.

2

Add a variable for the storage account SKU

Add a variable called storageSku and set it to the string 'Standard_LRS' in your Bicep file below the location variable.

Azure

var location = 'eastus'
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Define another variable using var for the SKU.

3

Define the storage account resource

Define a resource called storageAccount of type 'Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts@2022-09-01' with the name 'mystorageacct123'. Use the location variable for its location and set its SKU name to the storageSku variable. Use the kind property with value 'StorageV2'.

Azure

var location = 'eastus'
var storageSku = 'Standard_LRS'
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use the resource keyword to define the storage account with the correct properties.

4

Add tags to the storage account resource

Add a tags property to the storageAccount resource with two tags: environment set to 'dev' and project set to 'bicep-demo'.

Azure

var location = 'eastus'
var storageSku = 'Standard_LRS'

resource storageAccount 'Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts@2022-09-01' = {
  name: 'mystorageacct123'
  location: location
  sku: {
    name: storageSku
  }
  kind: 'StorageV2'
  # Your code here
}

Need a hint?

Add the tags property inside the resource block with the required key-value pairs.