Isn’t that title a mouthful.

Coming from Terraform, there are somethings that seem strange in Bicep. One of those is the way that the Resource Manager API handles assigning User Assigned Managed Identities (UAMIs). If you look at the API documentation for a resource (in this case we are going to use an Event Hub Namespace, but this applies to all resources that can have a UAMI assigned) you will see that the userAssignedIdentities value of the identity property looks lkie this:

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Recently Microsoft announced a public preview of native IP Address Management in Azure, powered by Virtual Network Manager. Being new technology, and with a new landing zone to build, I decided to test and see if we could use it to make IP management simpler.

The starting point was to completely miss the documentation and try and work it out myself. Sadly, the API documentation has yet to be updated to cover the new properties, and tracing the portal requests didn’t help either, since it uses a slightly different flow (sigh!).

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