🚀 Deploying Bicep Templates from Azure Container Registry (ACR)

Bicep is an Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) language that simplifies Azure resource deployments.
By storing Bicep templates in Azure Container Registry (ACR) as OCI artifacts, teams can benefit from: ✅ Version control
✅ Secure centralized storage
✅ Simplified deployment workflows

1️⃣ Publishing Bicep Templates to ACR

First, store your Bicep template in ACR so it can be retrieved and deployed anywhere.

Login to Azure

az login

# Set variables
$ACR_NAME=myacr.azurecr.io  # Change this to your ACR
$BICEP_FILE=main.bicep               # Your Bicep file
$TAG=latest                          # Change as needed (e.g., 'v1', 'dev', 'prod')

Publish Bicep to ACR

az bicep publish --file $BICEP_FILE --target br:$ACR_NAME/bicep/modules/core/storage/storageaccount:$TAG

Once pushed, your Bicep template is available in ACR for deployments.

2️⃣ Deploying Bicep Templates from ACR

Use az deployment group create to deploy directly from ACR.

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az deployment group create \
  --resource-group my-rg \
  --template-uri br:$ACR_NAME/bicep/modules/core/storage/storageaccount:$TAG \
  --parameters environmentSuffix="-prd"

💡 Customize parameters like environmentSuffix to deploy across different environments.

3️⃣ Pulling Bicep Templates for Editing

Bicep templates cannot be pulled directly from ACR, so you need ORAS.

• Install ORAS for Windows Manual Installation (Recommended)

  Go to the latest ORAS releases: 🔗 https://github.com/oras-project/oras/releases/latest

  Move the Executable to a System Path suck as: C:\Windows\System32

• Retrieve a Bicep Template Using ORAS

oras login divaacrweudev.azurecr.io -u 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 -p "<your-access-token>"
oras pull divaacrweudev.azurecr.io/bicep/modules/core/storage/storageaccount:latest

📌 To get an access token, use:

az acr login --name divaacrweudev --expose-token

4️⃣ Preview & Edit Bicep Templates in VS Code

Once pulled, open the Bicep file in VS Code:

Try the Bicep Visualizer

Open the Bicep file

Press Ctrl + Shift + P → Search for Bicep: Open Visualizer

See a graphical view of your deployment!

Peace... 🍀