Welcome back! In our previous session, we delved into the strengths of YAML as a tremendous alternative for orchestrating Azure configurations via Bicep. Today, I'll guide you through deploying Azure resources using a YAML with Bicep.

🧑‍💻 Using YAML and Bicep Together​

Revisiting the previous post, you might remember our YAML file, structured as follows:

resourceGroups:
  - name: "app01"
    location: "westeurope"
    tags:
      environment: "dev"
      project: "project01"

  - name: "app02"
    location: "northeurope"
    tags:
      environment: "dev"

This file lists two resource groups, app01 and app02. Each resource group has a name, location, and tags property. It's like a to-do list for our task. Now, we will write a resource block in Bicep to create these resource groups in Azure.

Greetings, everyone! This blog post marks the beginning of a series dedicated to exploring how YAML can be effectively utilized in conjunction with Bicep for deploying resources on Azure. This is the first part of a series. Here, we'll start with the basics of YAML and Bicep and learn how they work together to help us with resource provisioning on Azure.

💬 Why YAML, and What Are the Options?​

After our introduction to this series, you might be wondering, Why YAML? YAML, which stands for YAML Ain't Markup Language, is a human-readable data serialization standard. It is used in a variety of programming and IT contexts, but why is it so important for Azure resource deployment, particularly with Bicep? Before we dive deeper into why YAML is a great choice, let's look at the alternatives available in ARM templates or Bicep:

I had the opportunity to speak at Global Boot Camp 2023 in Istanbul! 🌍✨ It was an enlightening session on the latest in Azure technology. I truly enjoyed connecting with fellow Azure enthusiasts.

Here's the link to the recording: Global Azure 2023 İstanbul

I recently had the amazing chance to collaborate with the folks of the Café Azure Program in Turkey. In my session, I took a deep dive into the Azure Virtual Network Manager and its various components. Pleased to present my detailed demonstrations, offering practical applications and insights for everyone interested.

For those who missed it or want to revisit some of the highlights, here's the recording:

Hey folks, I'm back with the second part of the article for sign Azure Spot virtual machines. In the previous article, I walked you through the eviction policies, the types of Azure Virtual Machines and how to query the prices of Spot VMs. In terms of ways to deploy Spot VMs, my preference is to use Azure PowerShell as much as possible. I will show you how to deploy Spot VMs with Azure PowerShell. Let's dive in!

Hello Friends, I worked on a project requiring many temporary VMs.In that project, I had to find a way to reduce the cost of the VMs. I knew there were several different ways to reduce the cost of temporary Virtual Machines. The first option was on the table Spot Virtual Machines, and we could take advantage of the unused capacity in Azure. Regarding pricing, Spot VMs are tremendously cheaper than regular VMs. However, there is a catch: Spot VMs can be evicted at anytime. We can use Spot VMs for workloads that can be interrupted, such as batch jobs, render farms, and fault-tolerant applications. In this article, I will show you how to deploy Spot VMs with PowerShell. Let's dive in!

Welcome to the fourth article of the series on Shareable Links for Azure Bastion. As promised in the previous article, I will try to automate deleting a shareable link for Azure Bastion. In this article, I intend to build a PowerShell function to delete a shareable Azure Bastion link. Let's see how we can do it.

The time has come to build PowerShell Functions for the feature of Shareable Links for Azure Bastion. In this article, I will try to build a PowerShell function to create a shareable link for Azure Bastion. First, there is no way to create Bastion Shareable Links using Azure PowerShell Cmdlets. That's why we will try to come up with a be-spoke solution. At the end of the article series, we will have a couple of PowerShell Functions that can create, update, delete, and get shareable links for Azure Bastion.

Great to see you again! In the previous article, we tried to create a resource group for our lab environment. From now on, I will jump right into my script to create a lab environment. I will explain the script line by line. You can also find the script in end of the article and in my GitHub repository.

Hello Friends, I believe that you have probably heard about the Azure Bastion. It is a service that provides secure and seamless RDP/SSH connectivity to your VMs directly in the Azure portal over SSL. It removes the need to implement inbound ports for RDP/SSH and the need to manage jump boxes. You can connect to your VM using the Azure portal or Azure CLI.

I will try to automate creating a shareable link for Azure Bastion Hosts in this article series. I will use Azure PowerShell to create a shareable link(s) for Azure Bastion Host(s). Nothing stops you from generating a shareable link for Azure Bastion using the Azure Portal. This article series intends to automate provisioning a shareable link for Azure Bastion.