Extending Bicep and ARM Templates with Deployment Scripts

Declarative Infrastructure as Code is powerful, but sometimes you need to perform custom actions during a deployment that standard templates cannot handle alone. This text-based guide teaches you how to bridge the gap between declarative templates and imperative scripting by using deployment scripts. You will learn to execute custom logic directly within your deployment workflows. What you'll learn: - Understand the foundational concepts of Azure deployment scripts and how they run inside container instances. - Configure user-assigned managed identities to securely grant permissions to your deployment scripts. - Write custom PowerShell and Bash scripts that execute seamlessly during Bicep and ARM template deployments. - Pass parameters and retrieve outputs between your main templates and external scripts. - Implement modern security practices to protect sensitive data and credentials during execution. - Troubleshoot failed script executions by analyzing deployment logs and container lifecycles. You will start with core terminology and foundational setup before moving on to practical script integration patterns and security configurations. Designed for beginners to cloud automation, this course requires no prior experience with template scripting. Begin reading today to take your automation workflows to the next level.