Applying Conditions to Your Bicep Files to Deploy at Scale

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Applying Conditions to Your Bicep Files to Deploy at Scale

Your company, Globomantics, has started using Bicep files to deploy resources to Azure. They want you to deploy identical resources without having to add each resource manually, as well as add conditional logic to decide if resources should be deployed or not. You have been asked to do this by adding a loop and a condition based on parameter values.

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Lab Info

Level

Intermediate

Last updated

Sep 24, 2025

Duration

45m

Challenge

Add Loop
- Add a parameter in the Bicep file for number of storage accounts.
- Add a loop to the storage account resource to deploy based on the number in the parameter.
Challenge

Add Condition
- Add a parameter in the Bicep file to determine if the storage accounts are new or existing.
- Only allow the following values for the parameter:
  
  new
  
  existing
- Add a condition to the storage account resource to only deploy the resource if the parameter value is 'new'.
Challenge

Deploy Bicep File
- Test to see if condition works by using 'existing' as parameter value.
- Test to see if condition works by using 'new' as parameter value.
- Deploy 3 storage accounts.
Challenge

Create Bicep File and Copy Code
- Log in to the Azure portal.
- Create a new bicep file in the CloudShell.
- Copy code from initialdeploy.bicep located at the lab GitHub repo to your bicep file.

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