iac-bicep

What problem does it solve?

This Skill eliminates the common, costly pain points of Azure Bicep infrastructure-as-code workflows, including failed deployments, configuration drift, and hours of wasted debugging from uncaught template errors and Azure-specific gotchas.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Standardized Project Layout: Enforces a consistent, recreatable Bicep file structure (main.bicep orchestrator, reusable modules, per-environment parameter files) to avoid snowflake infrastructure.
• Pre-Deploy Validation Workflow: Mandates the bicep build → az deployment validate → what-if preview flow to catch errors locally before triggering long CI runs.
• Hard-Won Azure Gotchas Library: Documents expensive, rarely-documented Bicep/ARM quirks (globally-unique name collisions, ACR SKU limits, KQL interpolation issues, incorrect metric names) to avoid trial-and-error in production.
• Use Case: For example, when deploying a PostgreSQL Flexible Server module, this skill prevents the common misconfiguration of enabling PgBouncer on a Burstable SKU that would cause a failed production deployment.

Quick Start

Use the iac-bicep skill to validate your Bicep template and run a what-if deployment preview before pushing changes to your Azure infrastructure.