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Chapter 4: Infrastructure as Code & Deployment

📚 Course: AZD For Beginners | ⏱️ Duration: 1-1.5 hours | ⭐ Complexity: Intermediate

Overview

This chapter covers Infrastructure as Code (IaC) patterns with Bicep templates, resource provisioning, and deployment strategies using Azure Developer CLI.

Validated against azd 1.23.12 in March 2026.

Learning Objectives

By completing this chapter, you will:

  • Understand Bicep template structure and syntax
  • Provision Azure resources with azd provision
  • Deploy applications with azd deploy
  • Implement blue-green and rolling deployment strategies

📚 Lessons

# Lesson Description Time
1 Provisioning Resources Azure resource management with AZD 45 min
2 Deployment Guide Application deployment strategies 45 min

🚀 Quick Start

# Initialize from template
azd init --template azure-functions-python-v2-http

# Preview what will be created
azd provision --preview

# Provision infrastructure only
azd provision

# Deploy code only
azd deploy

# Or both together
azd up

📁 AZD Project Structure

my-project/
├── azure.yaml            # ← Project definition
├── infra/                # ← Infrastructure as Code
│   ├── main.bicep        # Entry point
│   ├── main.parameters.json
│   └── modules/          # Reusable components
│       ├── web.bicep
│       └── database.bicep
└── src/                  # Application code
    └── api/

🔧 Essential Commands

Command Description
azd init Initialize project
azd provision Create Azure resources
azd deploy Deploy application code
azd up provision + deploy
azd down Delete all resources

🔗 Navigation

Direction Chapter
Previous Chapter 3: Configuration
Next Chapter 5: Multi-Agent Solutions

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