[FEATURE REQ] bicep files as an alternative to ARM templates

Library name

Azure.ResourceManager.Resources

Please describe the feature.

At the moment it seems I have the option to create a deployment by specifying a JSON template like this: new DeploymentProperties(DeploymentMode.Incremental) { Template = "{}" // well-formatted JSON here }

Would it be possible to add bicep support? I know it’s possible to convert from bicep to ARM but I would rather just keep the bicep file and not also its corresponding ARM template in source control.

[ArcturusZhang]

Hi @ranul-pallemulle thanks for this request, but I do not think the SDK is going to support this at least recently. The SDK is generated from the swagger and the swagger only accepts arm template in JSON.

As a workaround, you could always use external tools like this to decompile bicep into JSON arm template and then pass the json into the SDK.

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