Cloud, Containers, and Microservices

W02 An Infrastructure as Code Bake-off, Comparing ARM, Terraform and Bicep

09/28/2022

8:00am - 9:15am

Level: Intermediate

Mike Benkovich

Developer, Business Owner, Consultant, Cloud Architect, Microsoft Azure MVP and an Online Instructor

Infrastructure as Code comes in many flavors, and the Azure Cloud's default deployment templates work with Azure Resource Manager (ARM) to define and deploy infrastructure. Working with the JSON format of ARM can be challenging, but Microsoft has introduced a language processor called Bicep which generates ARM as output. At the same time there are other options, including scripting tools, Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible and others. In this session, we'll compare creating infrastructure using ARM, Terraform and Bicep, and compare pros and cons to each.

You will learn:

  • What is Infrastructure as Code?
  • How do I get started with each of the options available to me?
  • How do the various options of ARM, Terraform and Bicep compare?