Bicep Community Call - June '24

[stephaniezyen]

We are hosting our June Bicep Community Call on Thursday, June 27th at 9AM PST!

(We usually switch off from 9AM to 2PM PST every other month to accommodate for different time zones, but this call will take place at 9am again to accommodate our presenters)

Use this issue to address topics you would like to discuss, questions you have for our team, further demos you would like to see, and any high or low points you would like to share. This is an open space for our users to discuss any topics they would like to talk about with our team.

You can list topics of discussion in this thread OR you can ask questions during the Q&A portion of the call.

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[andrem0]

Would be great if you could showcase how to do dns the proper way, with Azure dns records and linking to a variety of resources (container apps, blob storage, static web app/web app..), all in bicep. And maybe address the verification step, that has been a blocker

[mortenlerudjordet]

Any thoughts around WhatIf state of the union?

Implemented NSG rules with bicep, and saw how whatIf worked (not worked).
Seems like for whatIf there is a forced sort on the name of the rule, and this sort is used to calculate the delta. Ignoring the way the rules are sorted going in to bicep.

Would be nice to have some customization options for how whatIf behaves, like the option to turn off forced sort so it will honour the sort order of the rules going in to bicep.

For NSG and FW whatIf would be a relay nice sanity check before applying, though the state of things as of now whatIf is a bit dangerous to rely on.

Another nice thing to have is dynamic scopes, so module code can be a bit more DRY. As of now have to duplicate code in to different modules if they need to target different scopes. So would be nice to hear some thoughts on this.

[Xitric]

A few calls ago, you shared the idea of creating a new Bicep Deploy feature, where complex Bicep deployments could be expressed declaratively via a dedicated file. Any news on whether you will be exploring this approach further, or if the idea has been archived due to lack of interest?

[schaijkw]

It would be nice to include an overview of all the experimental features in each update session and give a brief update about those features. I like to know when there is any progress made or what serious issues or concerns were reported? Personally I am interested in the features that are resource related: resourceTypedParamsAndOutputs and resourceDerivedTypes
Also, can't wait to use the modular bicepparam 😄
Thanks 👍

[ahelland]

@andrem0 Sounds more like a candidate for docs or a blog post :)
DNS is slightly different when using private endpoints (requiring private DNS zones) and public facing endpoints. Domain verification depends on where you host the domain and whether it's a matter of creating NS records to point towards Azure or keep somewhere else.

But are you having particular problems or more of a generic tutorial? If you have technical details for an issue a discussion here on GitHub might be the thing.

[exploreazure]

Do you know if the extends keyword has a planned release date into the main branch? #13900