AZ400 Lab | Deployments using Azure Bicep Templates & Modules | 2026

AZ400 Lab | Deployments using Azure Bicep Templates & Modules | Infrastructure as Code | Azure DevOps Tutorial 2026 Infrastructure as Code is no longer optional in enterprise DevOps — and Azure Bicep is Microsoft's modern, clean answer to ARM template complexity. In this hands-on lab, you'll create a real Azure Bicep template, modularize it using Bicep Modules for reusability, wire everything into an Azure YAML pipeline, and deploy live infrastructure to Azure — all as code. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ What Azure Bicep is and how it improves on ARM templates The complete structure of an Azure Bicep template: parameters, variables, resources, modules & outputs How to create a Bicep template from scratch for real Azure resource deployments What Bicep Modules are and why modularization is critical for reusable, maintainable IaC at scale How to extract resource definitions into standalone Bicep modules and reference them from a main template How to modify the main deployment template to consume Bicep modules with proper parameter passing How to deploy Bicep templates to Azure using YAML pipelines in Azure DevOps How the AzureResourceManagerTemplateDeployment task works in Azure Pipelines for Bicep deployments How Owner and Global Administrator roles in Microsoft Entra ID affect infrastructure deployments Infrastructure as Code best practices: idempotency, modularity, parameterization & version control How Bicep compares to Terraform, ARM, and other IaC tools in the Azure ecosystem ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧪 HANDS-ON LAB INCLUDES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Setting up Azure DevOps organization & Azure subscription ✅ Verifying Microsoft Entra ID Owner & Global Admin roles ✅ Reviewing and understanding the starter Bicep template structure: parameters, variables, resources & outputs ✅ Analyzing the main Bicep template and identifying resource definitions suitable for modularization ✅ Creating a reusable Bicep module for a specific Azure resource (e.g., App Service, Storage Account) ✅ Modifying the main deployment template to reference and consume the newly created Bicep module ✅ Passing parameters correctly between main template and module definitions ✅ Writing the Azure YAML pipeline to deploy Bicep templates using the ARM Template Deployment task ✅ Configuring the service connection for Azure resource deployments from Azure Pipelines ✅ Running the pipeline and deploying all resources to Azure using the Bicep template ✅ Verifying deployed resources in the Azure portal ✅ Making a template change and redeploying to observe idempotent infrastructure updates ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 AZ-400 EXAM RELEVANCE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Maps to: "Implement and manage infrastructure as code" & "Design and implement pipelines" & "Design a configuration management strategy" ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔑 KEY CONCEPTS COVERED ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ → Azure Bicep vs ARM Templates: why Bicep wins → Bicep Template Structure: params, vars, resources, outputs → Bicep Modules: creation, consumption & parameter passing → Main Template + Module Architecture for scalable IaC → AzureResourceManagerTemplateDeployment Pipeline Task → YAML Pipeline for Infrastructure as Code Deployments → Idempotent Infrastructure Deployments with Bicep → Service Connection configuration for Azure deployments → Microsoft Entra ID Owner & Global Admin requirements → IaC best practices: modularity, parameterization & DRY → Version-controlling infrastructure with Azure Repos ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚙️ PREREQUISITES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Microsoft Edge or Azure DevOps-supported browser Active Azure DevOps organization (free to create) Active Azure subscription Microsoft or Microsoft Entra account with Owner role on the Azure subscription AND Global Administrator role in the associated Microsoft Entra tenant Recommended: Complete Lab 07 (YAML Pipelines as Code) before this lab for full pipeline context ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱ TIMESTAMPS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 PART 1 — CONCEPTUAL OVERVIEW 00:00 – Introduction & Lab Overview 🧪 PART 2 — HANDS-ON LAB 06:38 – Hands-On Lab Walkthrough ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 IMPORTANT LINKS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 Playlist:    • AZ-400 DevOps Certification: Complete Hand...   📖 Microsoft Learn AZ-400: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cre... 🧪 Lab Instructions: https://microsoftlearning.github.io/A... 💻 GitHub: https://github.com/MicrosoftLearning/... 👍 LIKE | 🔔 SUBSCRIBE | 💬 COMMENT | 📤 SHARE #AZ400 #AzureBicep #InfrastructureAsCode #AzureDevOps #AzurePipelines #BicepModules #IaC #DevOpsCertification #MicrosoftAzure #AZ400Lab #2026