Introduction
By using parameters, you can create flexible and reusable Bicep templates. You define parameters for any aspect of your deployment that might change, such as environment-specific settings, pricing and capacity configuration for your Azure resources, and API keys to access external systems. Parameters can be configured to securely handle sensitive data. In this module, you'll learn how to define and configure parameters, and how you can specify parameter values during your deployments.
Example scenario
Suppose you're responsible for deploying and configuring the Azure infrastructure at a toy company. The human resources (HR) department is migrating an on-premises web application and its database to Azure. The application will handle information about all of the toy company employees, so security is important.
You've been asked to prepare infrastructure for three environments: dev, test, and production. You'll build this infrastructure by using infrastructure as code techniques so that you can reuse the same templates to deploy across all of your environments. You'll create separate sets of parameter values for each environment, while securely retrieving database credentials from Azure Key Vault.
What will we be doing?
In this module, you'll build a reusable Bicep template with parameters. The Bicep file will define an Azure App Service plan and an app. It will also define a SQL server and database. You'll create a parameter file to specify the values for your environments. Then you'll secure the parameter values by using Key Vault.
What is the main goal?
By the end of this module, you'll be able to:
- Customize parameters and limit the values that can be used by each parameter
- Understand the ways that parameters can be passed to a Bicep template
- Work with secure parameters to ensure that secrets aren't leaked or shared unnecessarily