10 February 2022
Bicep nice to haves
If we are honest, Bicep is Microsoft's answer to Terraform. Maybe in a deliberate play to draw Terraform users in, Its syntax looks similar to Terraform. It shares some features, such as reusability through modules and has registry feature too. Maybe the similarities were coincidentally the best approaches for given the requirements they had. Whatever Microsoft's reason we now have something close to Terraform from Microsoft.
Over the past few years, I have worked with a number of clients that prefer using Terraform to Azure native templates. For some clients using ARM Templates has been out of the question, others have gone as far as refusing to use anything from Microsoft in their DevOps toolset, even though they are deploying to Azure. So, I have been emerged in a world of Terraform and Azure and fellow users. It is based on that experience that I have come across some Terraform tools that I feel could help with Bicep's adoption. Additional tools that could make its promising start turn into a mature system to deploy to Azure.
I shall begin by listing the features and tools that either tool has or lacks and follow up with further posts giving a little more detail around my Wishlist.
Without further ado, the list.
Semantic versioning
Document generator
Parameter Generator
Azure Policy parser.
A runtime module registry
If you have any suggestions, then please let me know.
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