Deploy an Azure Function using Bicep

This project illustrates how an Azure Function can be deployed as IaC via Bicep.

Description

The project provides the following Bicep templates:

• Function App (without settings)
• App Service Plan
• Storage Account
• Application Insights
• Key Vault
• Function App Settings

The individual resources can be found under the bicep/templates folder, these are all linked and deployed from the main.bicep file.

For more detailed information, please checkout my blog post 😃

Getting Started

Perquisites

• Azure Account with an active subscription. In case you do not have an Azure Account, go ahead and create one for free here
• Azure CLI
• Bicep Tools for Azure CLI and VS Code

How to deploy the templates

Create a parameter file

The example parameter file looks like this:

{
    "$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2019-04-01/deploymentParameters.json#",
    "contentVersion": "1.0.0.0",
    "parameters": {
      "storageAccountName": {
        "value": "stvm<storage-account-name>"
      },
      "storageAccountSku": {
        "value": "Standard_LRS"
      },
      "applicationInsightsName": {
          "value": "appi-<application-insights-name>"
      },
      "planName": {
          "value": "plan-<plan-name>"
      },
      "planOS": {
          "value": "Linux|Windows"
      },
      "functionAppName": {
          "value": "func-<plan-name>"
      },
      "functionAppRuntime": {
          "value": "dotnet|python|node|java"
      },
      "keyVaultName": {
          "value": "kv-<key-vault-name>"
      },
      "keyVaultSku": {
          "value": "standard"
      },
      "databaseConnectionString": {
          "value": ""
      }
    }
  }

Create a resource group

az group create -n <name> - <location>

ℹ️ If you want to deploy to an existing resource group, you can skip this step.

Deployment

az deployment group create \
  --name <deployment-name> \
  --resource-group <resource-group-name> \
  --template-file bicep\main.bicep
  --parameters @<path-to-parameters>

ℹ️ Before using the deployment command, please call az login and specify the subscription you want to use.

Authors

Contributors names and contact info:

• Manuel Kanetscheider

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.