Category: Bicep

Azure Bicep Snapshots – Test and Validate Your Code and Deployments

Azure Bicep Snapshots is a new preview feature introduced in v0.36.1 release. The feature allows you to generate the definition of a resource as it appears in ARM or in the Azure Portal for that particular resource when you click on the JSON view option, producing a JSON file as the result. Once you have that JSON file you can execute the snapshot command again to get results in what-if format. All this is done locally without doing an actual deployment against Azure. This means you can see how changes either in code or in the input impact your end results without having to deploy resources or make sure any referenced resources exist. This blog post will focus on showing you the capabilities of Bicep Snapshots in a complex real-world module and its bicep parameters configuration.

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Deploying A2A API in API Management with Azure Bicep

After introducing MCP servers. within Azure API Management and me blogging about it, now we have A2A API support. This makes APIM a very good choice for protecting, accelerating and observing your AI apps. Obviously I was tempted to find out how this new API type can be deployed via Bicep as proper documentation is lacking.

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List Keys for Azure Managed Redis with Bicep

Recently Azure has announced retirement of Azure Cache for Redis and Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise. This of course leads folks to look at Azure Managed Redis. Note that underneath Azure Cache for Redis and Azure Managed Redis use the same resource type but with different SKUs. Overall my general impression is that not many existing customers have moved from Azure Cache for Redis to Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise. The integration with Redis to other services and applications in most cases happen via providing connection string with credentials. It is well known how to list the credentials from Azure Cache for Redis with Bicep but may be it is not so known with how to do that with Azure Managed Redis due its different Azure architecture.

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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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