[Book] Azure Bicep - Zero to Hero is complete

Finally! I published the final chapter in my book Azure Bicep - Zero to Hero today. I started this project more than a year ago with an intention that I will complete it before end of year 2021. However, a few personal life events made me shift focus to my family and that pushed the book timelines to the right. In the last few weeks, I spent good amount of my personal time to explore a few new areas within Bicep and formed the content for the last few chapters.

So far, this book has 40 readers. As promised earlier, I have not taken a single penny from this book revenue for my personal use. All proceeds will go to charity once I hit 100 readers (whatever that amount may be).

Here is the overall table of contents.

• Introduction
  • Infrastructure As Code
  • Azure Resource Manager
  • Why Bicep
  • Introducing Bicep
  • Summary
• Getting Started
  • Installing Bicep CLI
  • Authoring Bicep templates
  • First Bicep template
  • Compiling and deploying Bicep templates
  • Summary
• Working with resources
  • Defining resources
  • Resource dependencies
  • Child resources
  • Extension Resources
  • Reference existing resources
  • Scoped resource deployment
  • Summary
• Authoring reusable templates
  • Parameters
  • Parameter decorators
  • Output
  • Generating Parameter files
  • Summary
• Variables, function, and expressions
  • Summary
• Iterations and Conditions
  • Iterations
  • Sequential deployments
  • Conditional deployments
  • Combining iterations and conditions
  • Summary
• Creating and Consuming Modules
  • Creating modules
  • Consuming modules
  • Iterations and conditions
  • Deploying at multiple scopes
  • Sharing modules
  • Module aliases
  • Summary
• Developing Bicep templates in VS Code devcontainers
  • Visual Studio Code Development Containers
  • GitHub Codespaces
  • Summary
• CI and CD of Bicep templates
  • Customizing linter rules
  • Build and deploy
  • A local pipeline
  • GitHub actions for CI/CD
  • Summary
• Built-in function primer
  • any function
  • loadJsonContent function
  • getSecret function
  • Summary

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