Tag: IaC

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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Master IaC with Azure Bicep at Global Azure Bootcamp Bulgaria 2025

On the 10th of May I have presented Master IaC with Azure Bicep session at Global Azure Bootcamp Bulgaria 2025. As this was local event and I have publish the examples online you can check them at GitHub repository even if you haven’t attended.

Azure Resources CMK Encryption with Azure Bicep

Azure Customer Managed Key (CMK) Encryption is quite used feature across Azure resources in order to make sure you are compliant against various certifications and increase your security posture. I have been configuring this feature via IaC since there was only ARM Templates and Bicep was not available. If you have the same experience with me you will notice that the input required for this feature varies from one resource to another. If have to summarize what is required as information that would be:

  • Key Vault
  • A key from Key Vault
  • A version for a key. Some might not require a version.
  • Identity that will be used to access the key from the Key Vault. Most resources will offer the ability to choose between system assigned or user assigned identity although there are sill some resources that will use the identity of the account that is configuring the feature.

With that said in this blog I would like to show you how I used to configured the feature when using ARM templates and how I think it is the better approach when using Bicep code.

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