Microsoft has recently released an experimental language for creating Azure ARM templates. It is called bicep.

Syntax on this new language is quite similar to Terraform – which means it is much more readable and developer-friendly:

param location string = 'eastus'
param name string = 'uniquestorage001' // must be globally unique

resource stg 'Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts@2019-06-01' = {
    name: name
    location: location
    kind: 'Storage'
    sku: {
        name: 'Standard_LRS'
    }
}

Once you have created your bicep script you need to compile it:

bicep build main.bicep

… and as an outcome, you get your old, JSON ARM template 😀 which you are deploying like any other ARM template these days.

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