💪 Hello, Bicep Enthusiasts! The 𝐀𝐳𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐩 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 is happening on 𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 30𝐭𝐡 (5 PM CET, 4 PM BST, 9 AM PST)! 🔗 Want an invite to the community call? Sign up here: aka.ms/armnews 🔗 Or join the call directly: aka.ms/bicepcc #azure #azurebicep #infrastructureascode

🚀 New blog! A long-lived dream of many Bicep users is to extend Bicep beyond Azure by connecting it to other services. With the experimental Bicep local-deploy feature that dream is becoming a reality! 🔗 Read the blog post here: johnlokerse.dev/2025/10/20/c... #azure #azurebicep #MVPBuzz

Hey Bsky! I’m up as a finalist for best blogger + azure evangelist apparently. Your support if you feel like it, would be good. But also there’s tons of good people here who deserve a vote too. www.ukcommunityawards.co.uk 🙏

⚠️ Azure Resource Manager (ARM) extension for @vscode.dev is now officially deprecated! Microsoft now recommends that you use the Bicep extension instead. #MVPBuzz #azure #azurebicep

My favourite go to Azure Bicep resources rios.engineer/my-favourite... #azure #azurebicep #iac #devops

v0.38 is out!💪🎉 OnlyifNotExists() is now GA! Many new features have been added: validate() decorator, 'any' type, several new [experimental] bicep commands, and more! Read more here: github.com/Azure/bicep/... Check out our September Community Call here: youtu.be/SqQi1hOnKAs

Managing Cost Center in GitHub is currently something only an Enterprise or Billing Administrator can do. We wanted Org Owners and Repo Admins to be able to set this too. I achieve this by combining Custom Properties and PowerShell in an Actions Workflow. jessehouwing.net/github-billi...

🚀 Need your help! With Bicep local-deploy, we can create extensions outside the Azure environment. I have developed an extension that integrates 𝐀𝐳𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐩 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐀𝐳𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐎𝐩𝐬, allowing you to configure Azure DevOps using Azure Bicep IaC! #MVPBuzz #azure #azurebicep #azuredevops

Going back to Seattle next year for the annual MVP Summit! Looking forward to meeting up with the product groups and MVPs! #MVPBuzz #Microsoft #azure

Custom Azure Bicep chat modes for GitHub Copilot by John Lokerse #PowerShell #Azure johnlokerse.dev/2025/09/08/c...

📣 Myself & @johnlokerse.dev have now taken control of the previously abandoned r/AzureBicep and looking to give it some love for the @biceplang.bsky.social community! It offers a different medium than LinkedIn, that I know some folks will prefer to engage through 🙏 www.reddit.com/r/AzureBicep...

🚀 New blog! Improve the quality of Azure Bicep Infrastructure as Code generation with GitHub Copilot custom chat modes. 🔗 Read the blog here: johnlokerse.dev/2025/09/08/c... #github #githubcopilot #azure #infrastructureascode #azurebicep #cloudmarathoner #MVPBuzz #MCP

Who’s funding open-source in 2025? A guide for maintainers. Feel free to share your resources. I'll add them to the article. www.eliostruyf.com/whos-funding...

🚀 2600 Azure Bicep enthusiasts! A LinkedIn community where you can share Bicep experiences, blogs, tips and tricks and ask questions! 💪🏼 Happy to be running this with @rios.engineer for the Bicep community. #azure #azurebicep #MVPBuzz

It's so cool what we can do right now with GitHub Copilot. Grounding my infrastructure planning document with Bicep MCP, Azure MCP and GitHub Copilot for Azure tool calls. Very easy to do with custom chat mode. Blog post on this next week! #bicep #azure @biceplang.bsky.social

Two new examples: Azure Deployment Stack output references + Resource Derived Types. Check it out #azurebicep #azure github.com/riosengineer...

🚀 Azure DevOps Bicep local-deploy (experimental) has been updated! You can now deploy with Bicep: • Projects • Repos • Artifacts feeds • Federated service connections 👉 Check out the sample folder: github.com/johnlokerse/... #MVPBuzz #azure #azurebicep

🚀 Feature request is implemented in Azure Bicep! The validate parameter decorator checks if parameters are valid with a certain value or format. If not, a (custom) error is thrown. I believe it will be available in v0.38 as experimental 💪 🔗 github.com/Azure/bicep/...

Did you know Azure Bicep modules don’t need deployment names? These are optional! Check out this tip from @danonazure 👇 🔗 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #bicep #azure

Integrating Companies House API with Azure AI Agent in Foundry with OpenAPI tool rios.engineer/integrating-... #azure #openai #azureaifoundry #aiagent

This weeks bicep did you know? Is now up! @johnlokerse.dev showcases the new fail function! A really useful function to leverage. Check it out www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #biceplang #azure #iac

🚀 GPT-5 in GitHub Copilot combined with the features in @vscode.dev, is so good. Copilot has made me more productive during working hours and more creative during side projects. As a long-time GitHub Copilot user, I highly recommend taking a look at this amazing product and decide for yourself.

I’m mentoring a group of new bloggers. What is your best blogging tip that I can share with them?

🎯 New #BicepDidYouKnow by @rios.engineer! Save time with resourceInput<> and resourceOutput<> by eliminating the need to create custom Bicep User-Defined Types: 🔗 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #azure #bicep #infrastructureascode

𝐁𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐩 ❤️ 𝐀𝐳𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐎𝐩𝐬! With the experimental Bicep local-deploy feature, it’s possible to connect Bicep to services like Azure DevOps. Check out the samples in the repo: github.com/johnlokerse/... #azuredevops #azurebicep #bicep

Bicep ❤️ Azure DevOps! With Bicep Local, you can interact with more than just Azure or Entra. You can connect Bicep to anything. This is going to be amazing! #bicep #azuredevops #azure

This week’s @biceplang.bsky.social #BicepTip by @johnlokerse.dev showcases the Bicep linter! Check it out in the group here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

I’m working on an upcoming blog post about @biceplang.bsky.social custom chat modes in GitHub Copilot for planning and implementation. So far, I have learned that you should put important instructions in ALL CAPS; otherwise, Copilot sometimes does not follow them 😅.

🚀 Bicep is now in the Managed DevOps Pools docs! I contributed snippets across the docs, an all-new quickstart to deploy a Managed DevOps Pool to Azure, and references to Azure Verified Modules. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...

🚀 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗣𝗜 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗡𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄 rios.engineer/spectral-the...

We are excited to announce that the Bicep Microsoft Graph extension is fully GA as of today 💪🎉 HUGE thanks to the MS Graph team for making this happen! Read more about it here: aka.ms/MSGraphGA

Another weekend project launched. This time for the MCP community! VS Code - MCP Install Button Generator Check it out at VSCodeMCP.com The backstory: I wanted an easy way for users to one-click install my Lokka.dev MCP Server to VSCode

GitHub Spark’s favourite food is premium requests... 🍽️

🚀 Created my own Azure DevOps pull request hub using GitHub Spark! The hub combines PRs from all accessible repositories into one page. 🔗 Create your own using my requirements document (use GitHub Spark or GitHub Copilot): gist.github.com/johnlokerse/...

🎯 New #BicepTip! Writing Bicep is great, but generating it with GitHub Copilot? That’s the real magic. Learn more about Bicep Infrastructure as Code generation using GitHub Copilot agent mode in the latest tip:
 🔗 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #azure #bicep #infrastructureascode

Working on a complex expression in a Bicep template. It's so great to call Microsoft Docs MCP to let the agent learn about a function and then combine it with best practices tools from GitHub Copilot for Azure. #bicep #infrastructureascode #githubcopilot

🎯 New #BicepTip is posted by @rios.engineer! Reusability plays an important role in avoiding duplication of code. This tip is about how to use import and export in Azure Bicep to avoid duplication: 🔗 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #azure #azurebicep

🚀 I am happy to share that I have been renewed as a Microsoft MVP in DevOps and Azure Infrastructure-as-Code for another year! #MVPBuzz #DevOps #AzureInfrastructureAsCode #Bicep #microsoft

v0.36 Patch Release is out! 💪 We had several bug fixes and some small highlights - find them here: github.com/Azure/bicep/... You can watch our short June Community Call, covering v1.0 and Q&A here: youtu.be/MBueToa5Nqo

🎯 New #BicepTip is up! This tip is about how you can inspect external Bicep module templates from an ACR, such as AVM, directly in your Visual Studio Code: 🔗 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #azure #azurebicep

🚀 New blog! If you work with GitHub Copilot, Azure and Bicep, you will want to check out GitHub Copilot for Azure (GA). It can generate fully schema-validated Bicep files for you using agent mode. 🔗 Read the blog post here: johnlokerse.dev/2025/06/30/f...

Check out this weeks #BicepDidYouKnow by @johnlokerse.dev ⬇️ www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #bicep #cloudcommunity

I love the Managed DevOps Pools product, but I really miss the ability to change the agent pool name: developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Managed-De... #azure #azuredevops

Starting tomorrow 👇! #azurebicep

🚀 The official Azure DevOps MCP is here! It includes an extensive set of tools you can use with GitHub Copilot to interact with Azure DevOps directly from Visual Studio Code. 🔗 Get to know more about the Azure DevOps MCP here: github.com/microsoft/az... #AzureDevOps #mcp #MVPBuzz

💪 @rios.engineer and I are rebooting the @biceplang.bsky.social tip and did you know series. We will share a weekly tip or did you know on Bicep every Tuesday! Join the Azure Bicep users community here: www.linkedin.com/groups/13004... #azure #azurebicep #mvpbuzz #infrastructureascode

Great news for security. In Azure DevOps it is now possible to fully restrict personal access token (PAT) creation. #AzureDevOps #azure devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/restr...

Ever wanted to do a @biceplang.bsky.social What-If Deployment without Write permissions? 💪 Now you finally can! Using the newly released ValidationLevel deployment option you can e.g. more securely run a what-if to validate change from a PR: #azure #biceplang github.com/matsest/bice...

🚀 New blog! If you are using GitHub Copilot, there is a great feature you should know about: connecting GitHub Copilot to AI providers such as Azure OpenAI, Ollama, and many more. 🔗 Read the blog post here: johnlokerse.dev/2025/05/26/c... #azure #github #githubcopilot #azureaifoundry #MVPBuzz