Stop hand-building Azure resources. Define them in Bicep.
CloudServus moves mid-market platform teams off manual portal changes and legacy ARM JSON onto Bicep, the language Microsoft now points teams toward for Azure infrastructure as code.
Talk to an Expert →Bicep is how you write ARM templates now
Azure Resource Manager still processes every deployment the same way it always has. What changed is the language you use to describe what you want built. Microsoft's own template documentation now tells teams evaluating infrastructure as code to look at Bicep first, and a Bicep file compiles down to the same ARM JSON that has always run underneath. The deployment engine doesn't change. The amount of code you write and maintain to drive it does.
Bicep resolves resource dependencies automatically instead of requiring hand-written dependsOn chains, and the same resource definition typically runs noticeably shorter than the equivalent JSON. That difference compounds once you're maintaining templates across dozens of resource groups instead of one quickstart.
How we move your infrastructure into Bicep
Audit and inventory
- What's manually built versus already templated, mapped resource group by resource group.
- Existing ARM JSON assessed for what's worth decompiling to Bicep and what's better rewritten.
Modularize
- Reusable Bicep modules built for the patterns you deploy repeatedly, instead of one long flat template.
- Azure Verified Modules adopted where Microsoft's standard module already covers the pattern, so your team isn't maintaining boilerplate.
Guardrails before go-live
- What-if runs built into every pipeline, so a deployment shows its diff before anything changes.
- Policy checks caught in preflight, before a noncompliant resource lands in the subscription.
Hand off the pipeline
- Azure Pipelines or GitHub Actions wired to your repo, matched to what your team already runs.
- Documentation and a working template set your team owns once the engagement wraps.
Bicep or Terraform, not a religious debate
Bicep only targets Azure and doesn't keep a state file: it checks your template against the live resources at deploy time. Terraform tracks state explicitly and reaches across providers, which is what makes it the right call for multi-cloud or hybrid infrastructure. If your environment lives entirely in Azure, that's usually reason enough to default to Bicep: tighter policy preflight, native Azure portal template export, and no state file to secure and back up.
If you're already running Terraform, or managing AWS or on-prem alongside Azure, we build in Terraform instead, or scope the two to run side by side only where the split earns its added complexity. Azure Verified Modules now exist for both toolchains, so module reuse isn't a reason to default to either one on its own.
Built by people who deploy this daily
Our architects write Bicep and Terraform as day-to-day work, not a line on a certification. We work inside your repo and your pipeline instead of handing back a sandbox project at the end of the engagement.
The outcome is a template set and a deployment process your platform team can run and extend on its own once we're off the account.
Ready to get your Azure infrastructure out of the portal?
Talk to a CloudServus architect about an audit of what's already deployed and where Bicep or Terraform fits your team.
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