Workshop: Automate workload provisioning with Bicep, PowerShell and Azure DevOps

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Happy New Year, dear community!

I hope you all have recharged your batteries and are ready to learn new things in 2023.

This time we focus on workload provisioning with Bicep, PowerShell and Azure DevOps and you will learn:

• What is Azure Service Principal, how to create it and how to properly scope its RBAC permissions for your workload
• How to use Azure DevOps REST APIs to automate Azure DevOps operations
• How to use `az devops` extension to automate Azure DevOps operations
• How to create Azure DevOps Service Connection for workload Service Principal with `az devops` cli
• How to automatically create IaC git Repository in Azure DevOps based on your Template repository
• How to create Azure DevOps IaC deployment pipeline using `az devops` cli
• What strategies are available to implement differences between workload environments

Workshop is organized as a combination of theoretical blocks with slides and labs. The agenda will soon be available here.

Estimated time for workshop completion is between 3 and 4 hours.

Prerequisites
Please spend some time before the workshop and make sure that you have installed/registered/configured all prerequisites that can be found here.

In short, you need:

• Microsoft Teams
• Visual Studio Code with Bicep plugin installed
• Windows Terminal (for those of you who are on Windows)
• An active Azure account
• An active Azure DevOps account
• Installed az cli
• Installed az devops extension

This workshop is rated level 200 with a target audience of developers and architects working with Bicep and Azure DevOps.

Looking forward to meeting you!

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Evgeny Borzenin
Microsoft Azure MVP
Blog: https://borzenin.com/blog
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evgeny-borzenin-8b13a4/