🚀 AZ400 Lab | Deployments using Azure Bicep Templates & Modules | Infrastructure as Code | Azure DevOps Tutorial 2026 Infrastructure as Code is no longer optional in enterprise DevOps — and Azure Bicep is Microsoft's modern, clean answer to ARM template complexity. In this hands-on lab, you'll create a real Azure Bicep template, modularize it using Bicep Modules for reusability, wire everything into an Azure YAML pipeline, and deploy live infrastructure to Azure — all as code. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ - What Azure Bicep is and how it improves on ARM templates - The complete structure of an Azure Bicep template: parameters, variables, resources, modules & outputs - How to create a Bicep template from scratch for real Azure resource deployments - What Bicep Modules are and why modularization is critical for reusable, maintainable IaC at scale - How to extract resource definitions into standalone Bicep modules and reference them from a main template - How to modify the main deployment template to consume Bicep modules with proper parameter passing - How to deploy Bicep templates to Azure using YAML pipelines in Azure DevOps - How the AzureResourceManagerTemplateDeployment task works in Azure Pipelines for Bicep deployments - How Owner and Global Administrator roles in Microsoft Entra ID affect infrastructure deployments - Infrastructure as Code best practices: idempotency, modularity, parameterization & version control - How Bicep compares to Terraform, ARM, and other IaC tools in the Azure ecosystem ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧪 HANDS-ON LAB INCLUDES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Setting up Azure DevOps organization & Azure subscription ✅ Verifying Microsoft Entra ID Owner & Global Admin roles ✅ Reviewing and understanding the starter Bicep template structure: parameters, variables, resources & outputs ✅ Analyzing the main Bicep template and identifying resource definitions suitable for modularization ✅ Creating a reusable Bicep module for a specific Azure resource (e.g., App Service, Storage Account) ✅ Modifying the main deployment template to reference and consume the newly created Bicep module ✅ Passing parameters correctly between main template and module definitions ✅ Writing the Azure YAML pipeline to deploy Bicep templates using the ARM Template Deployment task ✅ Configuring the service connection for Azure resource deployments from Azure Pipelines ✅ Running the pipeline and deploying all resources to Azure using the Bicep template ✅ Verifying deployed resources in the Azure portal ✅ Making a template change and redeploying to observe idempotent infrastructure updates ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 AZ-400 EXAM RELEVANCE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Maps to: "Implement and manage infrastructure as code" & "Design and implement pipelines" & "Design a configuration management strategy" ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔑 KEY CONCEPTS COVERED ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ → Azure Bicep vs ARM Templates: why Bicep wins → Bicep Template Structure: params, vars, resources, outputs → Bicep Modules: creation, consumption & parameter passing → Main Template + Module Architecture for scalable IaC → AzureResourceManagerTemplateDeployment Pipeline Task → YAML Pipeline for Infrastructure as Code Deployments → Idempotent Infrastructure Deployments with Bicep → Service Connection configuration for Azure deployments → Microsoft Entra ID Owner & Global Admin requirements → IaC best practices: modularity, parameterization & DRY → Version-controlling infrastructure with Azure Repos ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚙️ PREREQUISITES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ - Microsoft Edge or Azure DevOps-supported browser - Active Azure DevOps organization (free to create) - Active Azure subscription - Microsoft or Microsoft Entra account with Owner role on the Azure subscription AND Global Administrator role in the associated Microsoft Entra tenant - Recommended: Complete Lab 07 (YAML Pipelines as Code) before this lab for full pipeline context ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱ TIMESTAMPS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 PART 1 — CONCEPTUAL OVERVIEW 00:00 – Introduction & Lab Overview 🧪 PART 2 — HANDS-ON LAB 00:00 – Hands-On Lab Walkthrough ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 IMPORTANT LINKS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9BWcEhV1pxgqJmzrX5PhGLqvLR0eRlpv 📖 Microsoft Learn AZ-400: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/credentials/certifications/exams/az-400/ 🧪 Lab Instructions: https://microsoftlearning.github.io/AZ400-DesigningandImplementingMicrosoftDevOpsSolutions/ 💻 GitHub: https://github.com/MicrosoftLearning/AZ400-DesigningandImplementingMicrosoftDevOpsSolutions 👍 LIKE | 🔔 SUBSCRIBE | 💬 COMMENT | 📤 SHARE #AZ400 #AzureBicep #InfrastructureAsCode #AzureDevOps #AzurePipelines #BicepModules #IaC #DevOpsCertification #MicrosoftAzure #AZ400Lab #2026
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