Azure Bicep in DevOps release pipeline

Question

I have an Azure DevOps release pipeline to deploy resources using Azure CLI to multiple environments DEV, TEST, PROD. I want to start using Biceps files, but I don't know how to set up a bicep task in a release pipeline. 

My question is Do I need to use a Azure CLI script task type to run something like:

 az deployment group create --resource-group $(resourceGroupName) --template-file $(templateFile) --parameters "{ \"someparameter1\": { \"value\": \"$(someparameter1)\" } }"?

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

There are two possible solutions. 

1. Deploy bicep templates with the az deployment group "create -command" without building them.
2. Compile the bicep template yourself with a bicep build.

In my opinion, it's better to go with the first approach as you don't have separate build and release pipelines.