Bicep Community Call - January '25

[stephaniezyen]

We are hosting our first Bicep Community Call of the year on Thursday, January 30th at 9AM PST!

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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[Jiihaa]

Could we get a update on portal support for Bicep export, which was discussed last autumn.

[coupdemain]

Can we get an update on progress of Graph/Entra integrations as little progress on the Entra API has been seen for a while now. And this has huge potential for large orgs.

[dermot-cochran-ul]

Has anyone else noticed issues with creating role assignments or private endpoints using Bicep?

I sometimes have to manually delete existing role assignments or private endpoints before re-deploying from a Bicep template otherwise it complains that the role assignment or private endpoint already exists.

[dermot-cochran-ul]

Also, is there a way to convert ARM templates into Bicep?

[anthony-c-martin]

Also, is there a way to convert ARM templates into Bicep?

See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/bicep/decompile. Note that this tool is intended for a one-time migration from hand-authored template - it's not something you'd want to rely on for a back-and-forth conversion.

[ahelland]

@dermot-cochran-ul

Has anyone else noticed issues with creating role assignments or private endpoints using Bicep?

I sometimes have to manually delete existing role assignments or private endpoints before re-deploying from a Bicep template otherwise it complains that the role assignment or private endpoint already exists.

Haven't noticed any issues with private endpoints, but role assignments is a known trap to fall into. The name needs to be unique (using guide are nice), and you can't edit the params of an existing role assignment. But as long as you don't change the Bicep on each run it should be idempotent.

[dkershaw10]

Can we get an update on progress of Graph/Entra integrations as little progress on the Entra API has been seen for a while now. And this has huge potential for large orgs.

We will be providing a brief update on Graph Bicep on Thursday.