.Net support for natively deploying bicep template

[Hana-fubuki]

Currently there's no way to easily deploy bicep templates via .Net application. I have seen recommendations but they are extremely hackish.

Is there any thoughts on creating a nuget package that can could easily be used to deploy bicep templates from a .Net application

[mennolaan]

Why?

[anthony-c-martin]

It's possible to do compilation using the Azure.Bicep.Core nuget package with fairly minimal code - here's a gist example: https://gist.github.com/anthony-c-martin/917660b367b998685ea8805abe3a8298

[Hana-fubuki]

Thank you for this @anthony-c-martin , would you happen to have an example where this works with a bicep registry? Currently am able to get this working on a bicep files that aren't using registries but stuck on when using files that references a registry

[anthony-c-martin]

await compiler.CreateCompilation(bicepUri); in the gist I shared should also handle restoring files from a registry (see here). Could you give more information about what is not working?

[Hana-fubuki]

I figured out the issue, had a typo for the registry and didn't have all the services registered in my service collection. Thank you for all the help! Would be great to see this documented.