IaC Templates

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the backbone of the AI Factory. All resources are defined in Azure Bicep, ensuring repeatable, auditable, and version-controlled deployments.

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Bicep Architecture

The Bicep templates are structured as modular, composable units:

environment_setup/aifactory/bicep/
├── modules/               # Reusable resource modules
│   ├── aiFoundry.bicep
│   ├── aiSearch.bicep
│   ├── networking.bicep
│   ├── keyvault.bicep
│   └── ...
├── esml-common/           # AI Factory common infrastructure
└── esml-project/          # Per-project infrastructure

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Deployment Stages (Pipeline Steps)

Step	Description
61	Foundation — Resource Groups, Managed Identities, VMs
62	Core Infrastructure — Application Insights, Key Vault, Storage, ACR
63	Cognitive Services — AI Search, OpenAI, Vision, Speech, etc.
64	Databases — Cosmos DB, SQL, PostgreSQL, Redis
65	Compute Services — Container Apps, Web App, Function App
66	AI Platform (V1) — AI Foundry Hub with default project and connections
67	ML Platform — Azure Machine Learning, Data Factory, Databricks
68	Integration — Logic Apps, Event Hubs
69	AI Foundry V2 (2025) — AI Foundry V2 with RBAC and default project
100	RBAC & Security — Role assignments across all services (steps 61–99)

Each step can be individually skipped via debug_disable_XX flags for faster re-runs during development.

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Bring Your Own (BYO) Options

The IaC supports several BYO overrides to integrate with existing infrastructure:

BYO Option	Variable
Existing vNet	vnetNameFull_param + vnetResourceGroup_param
Existing subnets	BYO_subnets=true + subnet name variables
Existing Common Resource Group	commonResourceGroup_param
Existing Data Lake	datalakeName_param
Existing Key Vault	kvNameFromCOMMON_param
Existing ASEv3	byoASEv3=true + byoAseFullResourceId
BYO Terraform	See BYO Terraform

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Tip

See IaC — BICEP for detailed Bicep usage and best practices.