fully move to bicep

[fmms]

Hi,

currently the repository contains the bicep templates AND the arm template.

Indeed the compile step is not part of the build pipeline and thus just the pre-compiled ARM template is executed:

data-management-zone/.ado/workflows/dataManagementZoneDeployment.yml

Line 60 in 571c618

csmFile: "$(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)/infra/main.json"

Shouldn't

az bicep build --file .\main.bicep

be added to first compile bicep to ARM and then deploy that ...

Thanks for the great repo!

[marvinbuss]

We have this on our backlog. The GitHub Actions actually already support the deployment of bicep templates. This is not the case for the ADO Task, but I reached out to the team to get clarity on this to have a consistent experience across ADO and GH.
I will keep you posted.

[fmms]

Marvin Buss (@marvinbuss) my idea was pretty much based on https://blog.johnnyreilly.com/2021/03/23/bicep-meet-azure-pipelines-2 .

Adding a

- bash: az bicep build --file infra/main.json
  displayName: 'Compile Bicep to ARM'

which then would remove the redundant file already from the repo.

[marvinbuss]

I understand what you meant. We will most likely have to do that, but optimally, this is something that would be supported by the task itself, so that we do not have to compile the main.bicep.
Here is the issue, where this gets tracked: microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks#15337

[marvinbuss]

Team is working on implementing the above. Once that is done, we will switch to deploying bicep files instead of ARM.