Bicep

Bicep is Microsoft’s language for Azure deployments. It compiles to ARM templates, but the source is shorter and easier to maintain than raw JSON.

Bicep is useful when a team is all-in on Azure and wants first-party support for new Azure features. Terraform is broader and works across many providers; Bicep is narrower, but it tends to track Azure closely.

The workflow is still Infrastructure as Code: keep templates in Git, review changes, run deployments from a pipeline, and avoid making one-off portal changes that nobody can reproduce.