Bicep is the native IaC solution for Azure.
The default used to be ARM templates but Bicep solved a couple of issues with ARM. However in the end Bicep is compiled to ARM templates so every limitation of ARM still exists

Pros

  • Natively supported by Azure
  • Based on hashicorp HCL & easier compared to JSON in ARM templates
  • Provides a registry solution for centralized templates

Cons

  • What-If is not that great
  • Limited by ARM template language

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