Category: ARM

Enabling Defender for APIs on Azure APIM APIs with Azure Bicep

Azure APIM is essential feature in building AI applications. Being part of that it is important to protect your APIs and couple years ago Azure has provided such capability in Defender for Cloud called Defender for APIs. Previously I have demonstrated how to configure Defender for Cloud plans in Enable Defender for Cloud Auto provisioning agents via Bicep. For Defender for APIs plan it is the same resource type Microsoft.Security/pricings but the name of the resource is ‘Api’. Additionally, you will set pricingTier to Standard to enable it and subPlan to P1, P2, P3, P4 or P5. As this is the initial configuration only in this blog post we will look at what to do next.

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Deploying Azure APIM MCP Servers with Bicep

Azure API Management (APIM) service is one of the building blocks for AI applications. At the same time MCP (Model Context Protocol) server is one of the latest capabilities around AI. Not so long ago APIM announced support for exposing either existing MCP servers or existing APIs as MCP servers. I have played around with this functionality lately and what it turned out is that these MCPs Servers in APIM are just API resource underneath which means it can be easily deployed with Azure Bicep. In this blog post I will show you how to do it with examples.

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Testing Data Processing Azure Bicep Functions Easily

These days Azure Bicep has a lot of more functions that can be used for processing data. Most notably I am referring to the lambda Azure Bicep functions. Often times I use two or more of these functions all together in Bicep templates. When using several of these functions chained one after another it is easier to get lost how data will be processed. Also to test all the different input that will be passed to those functions will results in doing several different deployments. That is time consuming process as deployments takes time to run not to mention that along I have several other resources also deployed via those templates. Thankfully just to test if the data is processed according to how I have imagine it there is easier method by using Bicep parameters files.

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The Resource Type behind Azure Update Manager Dynamic Scope

When helping folks at Microsoft Q&A I saw a question regarding creating Dynamic scope with Bicep or Terraform. That led to creating this blog post where we will see what is the resource type behind Azure Update Manager Dynamic scope and how it can be created with Bicep. Of course the same thing applies to Terraform and AzAPI provider.

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Examples from my Azure Bootcamp 2021 session

At Azure Bootcamp Bulgaria 2021 I have presented "Azure Deployments – Past, Present and Future". In the demos I had two examples:

  • Advanced ARM template templates for deploying Azure SQL Database
  • The above example converted to the new Bicep language

You can find both examples uploaded here. The Bicep example is also published in the Bicep repository examples.