This hands-on workshop provides a day of training that teaches you how to work with Bicep. The workshop starts by introducing Bicep and the key components that are necessary to understand when working with automated deployments and infrastructure as code.

During the first part of the workshop, you'll learn about:
- Creating Bicep files
- Deploying resources (a simple storage account) to a single resource group using the command line
- Parameters
- Variables
- Modules
- Outputs
- Orchestration of multiple deployment files for a subscription-level deployment from the command line
- How to create Azure Service Principals and set the correct permissions to authorize a third-party solution like GitHub to deploy to your subscription
- Automating your first orchestrated pipeline to your Azure subscription using GitHub actions

As the day progresses, you'll learn how to:
- Create specific Azure resources using Bicep to deploy a robust web application with App Service, Key Vault, Application Insights, Log Analytics, and SQL Server
- Leverage prior modules to get the output from a previous deployment to configure settings like Key Vault Secrets on the App Service configuration page

You'll then see how to set the CI/CD pipeline to deploy the application code.

The day finishes up with a final look at moving your shared secrets into Azure App Configuration with a couple of small changes to the Bicep pipeline and the application code.

This workshop has both a Bicep and a Terraform path, so the attendees will be able to leverage the training materials provided to learn about Terraform as well if they are so inclined, even after the conference is over.

Sam and I delivered both paths at Codemash 2024, with half-day workshops and determined that either path is best served as a full-day workshop.

co-presenter for this is Sam Gomez