Allow on build to run Powershell Az commands to get information

[slavizh]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Allow on build to run Az commands to get information

Describe the solution you'd like
When bicep build is run the Az PowerShell commands should be run that are in the .bicep file. The information from the commands you can put into variables, outputs and parameters. For example

var subscriptions = Get-AzSubscription

Also should apply for any PowerShell command.

[Satak]

Great idea! Full support for this. This would make Bicep so much better than the ARM.

[alex-frankel]

Stan, presumably this would not be limited to Az right? If I can run the Az module, I should be able to run any arbitrary powershell at that point.

[Satak]

Stan, presumably this would not be limited to Az right? If I can run the Az module, I should be able to run any arbitrary powershell at that point.

Yes this would be ideal, just full Powershell support so you can import and use any cmdlet, even your own.

[slavizh]

@alex-frankel yes. I have added one last sentence that it should apply to any PowerShell cmdlet thus module. Of course there are always things that you cannot do at build so for those scenarios you will still rely on deploymentScripts.

[cognitox]

Is there any update on this feature yet?

[kilasuit]

This would be great and was one of the leading reasons why I was excited by PSARM as you'd have it already for free

[alex-frankel]

I don't see us getting to this feature anytime soon, if ever. We can revisit if there are a lot of requests/feedback asking for this.