Deploy Azure resources by using Bicep and GitHub Actions

After completing this module, you'll be able to:

• Automate Bicep deployments by using a workflow in GitHub Actions
• Set up a GitHub secret to authenticate a workflow to Azure
• Select an appropriate workflow trigger and set of tasks for a Bicep deployment

After completing this module, you'll be able to:

• Explain what a service principal is, how it works, and how it compares to a managed identity
• Create a service principal and manage its keys
• Configure the appropriate authorization for a service principal to deploy Azure resources

After completing this module, you'll be able to:

• Add Bicep code linting during continuous integration
• Add preflight deployment validation during build or release jobs
• Add what-if checks, including manual approval steps
• Verify the configuration of the deployed environment

After completing this module, you'll be able to:

• Deploy Bicep files to multiple Azure environments from a workflow
• Use reusable workflows to avoid repetition
• Use and secure parameters for each environment

After completing this module, you'll be able to:

• Deploy Azure infrastructure, applications, database scripts, and storage blobs from a single workflow
• Use workflow scripts and workflow actions to perform deployment steps
• Use workflow artifacts to publish compiled files for your deployment workflow jobs to use
• Pass data from your Bicep files to other deployment steps by using outputs

• Introduction
• Understand GitHub Actions
• Exercise - Create and run a basic workflow
• Deploy Bicep files by using a workflow
• Exercise - Create a GitHub secret
• Exercise - Add a Bicep deployment action to the workflow
• Use triggers to control when your workflow runs
• Exercise - Update your workflow's trigger
• Knowledge check
• Summary

• Introduction
• Understand service principals
• Create a service principal and key
• Exercise - Create a service principal and key
• Grant a service principal access to Azure
• Exercise - Authorize your service principal for deployments
• Knowledge check
• Summary

• Introduction
• Understand workflow jobs
• Lint and validate your Bicep code
• Exercise - Set up your environment
• Exercise - Add lint and validate jobs to your workflow
• Preview and approve your deployment
• Exercise - Add a preview job to your workflow
• Test your resources after deployment
• Exercise - Add a test job to your workflow
• Knowledge check
• Summary

• Introduction
• Understand environments
• Handle similarities between environments by using reusable workflows
• Exercise - Set up your environment
• Exercise - Add multiple environments to your workflow
• Handle differences between environments by using Bicep parameters
• Exercise - Use Bicep parameters with multiple environments
• Knowledge check
• Summary

• Introduction
• Understand end-end deployments
• Configure applications and virtual machines
• Exercise - Set up your environment
• Exercise - Deploy a web application
• Configure storage and databases
• Exercise - Seed a storage account and database
• Knowledge check
• Summary