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Azure Developer CLI – Command Line Tool for DevOps Experts

Microsoft has published new CLI tool aimed for Azure developers called Azure Developer CLI. It is completely different tool than Azure CLI and its main focus is on DevOps. The CLI provides developer-friendly commands to handle key steps in your DevOps workflow. For example to setup new project, to deploy azure resources, to setup pipelines etc. It can be used through the Windows Terminal, Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio …

Infrastructure as Code with Azure DevOps and Bicep

Bicep is a language for declaratively deploying Azure resources. You can use Bicep instead of JSON for developing your Azure Resource Manager templates (ARM templates). Bicep simplifies the developing process by providing shorter syntax and really nice intellisense support for Visual Studio Code.

Bicep is based on “.bicep” files that are written with Visual Studio Code (or any other text editor, but I recommend to use the Code). If Bicep …