Building Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) with Azure Bicep: Part 2

Course details

This course is designed for cloud engineers, architects, and developers seeking to modernize their infrastructure management with Azure Bicep and builds on top of the lessons taught in Building Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) with Azure Bicep: Part 1. Join instructor and Microsoft MVP Elkhan Yusubov as he covers—through a series of demos—how to work with Azure tenant resources, automate infrastructure code deployment processes, and create reusable infrastructure code. Learn about best practices for code management via template specs, management of multiple environments with environment-driven deployments, securing your infrastructure code deployment process, and securing your Azure deployment environments.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Learning Azure Bicep
02 - What you should know
03 - Understanding KinetEco's challenges

1. Working with Azure Tenant Resources

04 - Understanding Azure resource hierarchy
05 - Understanding resource IDs
06 - Demo - Resource IDs in Azure Portal
07 - Deploying to target scoped resources
08 - Demo - Deploying subscription-scoped resources
09 - Governing Azure resources
10 - Demo - Working with a management group

2. Automating Deployments

11 - Why automate IaC deployment
12 - Introduction to GitHub workflows
13 - Basics of GitHub workflows
14 - GitHub workflow YAML document structure
15 - Demo - Creating GitHub deployment actions
16 - Adding preflight validation into the build pipeline
17 - Adding preflight validation - Secrets
18 - Demo of the preflight validation
19 - Demo - Updating pipeline test run
20 - Demo - Completed validation run
21 - Adding quality control with linting
22 - Demo - Building quality controls into the GitHub pipeline

3. Creating Reusable Infrastructure Code

23 - Understanding the need for reusable code
24 - Reasons for creating reusable code
25 - Options in the creation of reusable infrastructure code
26 - Introducing template specs to the KinetEco team
27 - Demo - Creating and deploying a template spec
28 - Understanding the management cycle of the template specs
29 - Demo - Creating pipeline updates
30 - Demo - Checking deployed resources
31 - Demo - Working on template spec versioning and updates
32 - Demo - Deploying template spec testing

4. Implementing Best Practices

33 - Adding quality controls to infrastructure as code projects
34 - Environment-driven infrastructure setup
35 - Testing deployed endpoints and resources
36 - Demo - Adding a test into a GitHub pipeline
37 - Demo - Smoke and negative n test
38 - Best practices to manage IaC solutions across environments
39 - Implementing environment-driven deployment setup
40 - Demo - Part 2 deployment file walk-through
41 - Demo - Part 3 Bicep module update
42 - Demo - Part 4 workflow file update
43 - Demo - Part 5 checking workflow file
44 - Using Bicep parameters with multiple environments
45 - Demo - Using Bicep parameters with multiple environments
46 - Demo - Update failed parameter
47 - Best practices to secure your GitHub repos and pipelines
48 - Best practices to secure GitHub projects and secrets
49 - Demo - Securing GitHub, part 1
50 - Demo - Securing GitHub, part 2
51 - Demo - Securing GitHub, part 3
52 - Best practices to secure your Azure environment

Conclusion

53 - Next steps

Building Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) with Azure Bicep: Part 2

Authors

Elkhan Yusubov