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Continue ReadingHere are some useful commands when working with Bicep in Azure. Here I mostly focus on commands for when things go wrong or you need to troubleshoot deployments.
Working with subscription deployments
# List all subscription deployments
az deployment sub list
# Show only the names of subscription deployments
az deployment sub list --query "[].name" -o tsv
# Show details of a specific subscription deployment
az deployment sub show --name <deployment-name>
# Delete a specific subscription deployment
az deployment sub delete --name <deployment-name>
# Delete all subscription deployments using PowerShell
az deployment sub list | ConvertFrom-Json | ForEach-Object {az deployment sub delete --name $_.name}
# Delete all subscription deployments using bash
az deployment sub list --query "[].name" -o tsv | xargs -I{} az deployment sub delete --name {}
That takes care of subscription deployments. Likely you will have resource group deployments as well. Next, let’s look at resource group deployments.
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