Azure Bicep - Deploy Mutliple Resource Groups in same Template

Hi @Son ,

To deploy to multiple resource groups in a single Bicep file, you can define each resource group as a separate module and set the scope for each module to the symbolic name for the resource group you create. You can deploy up to 800 resource groups in a single deployment. Here is an example Bicep file that creates two resource groups and deploys a storage account to each resource group:

targetScope = 'subscription'

param rgName string = 'myResourceGroup1'
param rgLocation string = 'eastus'

param rgName2 string = 'myResourceGroup2'
param rgLocation2 string = 'westus'

module resourceGroup1 './resourceGroup.bicep' = {
  name: 'rg1'
  params: {
    rgName: rgName
    rgLocation: rgLocation
  }
}

module resourceGroup2 './resourceGroup.bicep' = {
  name: 'rg2'
  params: {
    rgName: rgName2
    rgLocation: rgLocation2
  }
}

module storageAccount1 './storageAccount.bicep' = {
  name: 'sa1'
  scope: resourceGroup1.outputs.resourceGroup.id
}

module storageAccount2 './storageAccount.bicep' = {
  name: 'sa2'
  scope: resourceGroup2.outputs.resourceGroup.id
}

In this example, the resourceGroup.bicep file creates a resource group and returns the resource group object. The storageAccount.bicep file deploys a storage account to the specified resource group.

Note that you need to specify a unique name for each module, and set the scope property for each module to the id property of the resource group object returned by the corresponding resourceGroup.bicep module. References:

• Resource group deployments with Bicep files
• Create resource groups by using Bicep

Note that this response is partially based on Microsoft Q&A AI Assist and posted after manually validating the accuracy of the response and making necessary changes as appropriate.

Hi, Thanks for the reply but this does not work. The fact that my bicep file is calling the resourcegroup resource twice regardless of the name configured is causing it to fail. Can the same resource not be declared twice in the same file?