AI assistants are everywhere. Conversational AI has become mainstream. There is the good, but there is also the bad and the ugly. AI assistants are getting better, much better, as they start to rely on AI models that are improving at a fast rate, and a lot of effort is being put into making these assistants more reliable and consistent. They are amazing when they work, and that's most of the time, but then comes the occasional hallucination that spoils things. Depending on the context of the problem space, companies are figuring out ways to create guardrails to mitigate most of these problems....

Anyone today can go to one of the available AI assistants or chat bots and use natural language to try and get an Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solution that fits their requirements. Anyone that has already tried this knows that you are more likely to get an invalid solution or one that has one or more "invented" pieces of information; things that don't really exist and are totally made up (even though they might seem at first blush to be authentic!)....

This quick walkthrough demonstrates how you can compose any Bicep/ARM template of your choice by simply describing the Azure infrastructure you want to build. The walkthrough shows how, using the power of conversational AI through natural language interactions with an AI agent, you can easily, quickly, and even inexpensively, compose Azure infrastructure solutions that are as sophisticated as you need them to be in order to solve your particular problem or support your product's Azure environment, resources, and configurations; sophisticated solutions that are also backed by an SLA....

There is this proclamation going around that Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates are dead—unworthy of your precious time—and that you should invest your efforts into a more mature IaC product/solution such as Microsoft's own recommended alternative to ARM template, Bicep, if you're married to the Azure infrastructure, or the more popular, mature and cross-cloud HCL/Terraform—considered by many the gold standard when it comes to IaC....