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Azure Bicep Monthly Updates — August 2024
Despite a few detours and delays, the Azure Bicep team has launched a new release from the box office. This time, the version has been bumped to v0.30.3.
Time to learn how you can install or upgrade to the new version, look at the new features, and lastly, the roadmap updates provided through the community call hosted every month.
Install or Upgrade Bicep
To install or upgrade to the new Bicep version, you can grab the latest installer for your relevant operating system. In this example, I am using the Windows installer on a 64-bit system.
You can copy the executable to %USERPROFILE/.bicep directory. If it does not exist, create it.
If there was already an existing
bicep.exe, make sure you remove it and rename the downloaded executable.
Lastly, the PATH environment variable requires to have the path included.
Open a PowerShell terminal session and run the following adding the %env:USERPROFILE/.bicep directory path to the environment variable if it does not exist yet:
$InstallLocation = Join-Path -Path…
