PSBicep vs AzureDeploymentFramework

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PSBicep		AzureDeploymentFramework
	Project
1	Mentions	1
129	Stars	143
3.1%	Growth	-
7.7	Activity	8.8
about 2 months ago	Latest Commit	4 months ago
PowerShell	Language	Bicep
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

PSBicep

Posts with mentions or reviews of PSBicep. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-24.

Anyone using ACR Repository for Bicep Modules with ADO?
5 projects | /r/azuredevops | 24 Feb 2023

Currently the automated testing we have in the pipeline is only building the bicep into ARM, and running psrule against the biceps (which, I think, is essentially the same thing). We used to run the Test-command of PSBicep-module (https://github.com/PSBicep/PSBicep/blob/main/Docs/Help/Test-BicepFile.md), but ran into problems with that one, as the module tends to lack behind latest bicep features a bit - same thing with a lot of tooling like psrule.

AzureDeploymentFramework

Posts with mentions or reviews of AzureDeploymentFramework. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-22.

Devops Pipeline + Bicep - Advice on how to structure
4 projects | /r/azuredevops | 22 Feb 2023

This is a great resource on how to structure bicep modules https://github.com/brwilkinson/AzureDeploymentFramework/tree/main/ADF/bicep we do something similar and provide a parameter file per region calling the main.bicep file twice.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing PSBicep and AzureDeploymentFramework you can also consider the following projects:

PSRule.Rules.Azure - Rules to validate Azure resources and infrastructure as code (IaC) using PSRule.

CanadaPubSecALZ - This reference implementation is based on Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure and provides an opinionated implementation that enables ITSG-33 regulatory compliance by using NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 4 and Canada Federal PBMM Regulatory Compliance Policy Sets.

PSDocs - Generate documentation from Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

azure-tailscale-aci-deploy - ARM & Bicep Templates to deploy a Tailscale subnet router with ACI

bicep-registry-modules - Bicep registry modules

TheYAMLPipelineOne - Azure DevOps YAML Templates

ResourceModules - This repository includes a CI platform for and collection of mature and curated Bicep modules. The platform supports both ARM and Bicep and can be leveraged using GitHub actions as well as Azure DevOps pipelines.

data-management-zone - Template to deploy the Data Management Zone of Cloud Scale Analytics (former Enterprise-Scale Analytics). The Data Management Zone provides data governance and management capabilities for the data platform of an organization.

PSRule - Validate infrastructure as code (IaC) and objects using PowerShell rules.

bicep - Bicep is a declarative language for describing and deploying Azure resources

AzOps - AzOps is a PowerShell module which deploys (Push) ARM Resource Templates & Bicep files at all Azure scope levels and exports (Pull) ARM resource hierarchy.