Azure Bicep August 2025 — The Must-Try New Capabilities New MCP Server, simplified C# authoring experience, and more

Just wrapped up the new v0.37.4 release of Azure Bicep and wow, this one's a game changer.

I was excited (and a little nervous) to be part of the community call, showcasing the new C# authoring experience in action.

Check the summary at:

gijsreijn.medium.com/azure-bicep-...

09.08.2025 03:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Managing Multiple Developer Tooling the DevOps Way: WinGet + DSC Use these four resources to simplify your package management installations

I had the pleasure of working on three out of four resources to simplify your management of the DevOps package management tooling.

If you're looking for ways to manage multiple of these developer tools using a single one, check out my new blog post:

gijsreijn.medium.com/managing-mul...

08.08.2025 04:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Happy and proud to see the community demos also published on YouTube for PSConfEU. I was the third in line, and you can see the "What's new in Microsoft DSC v3.1" at:

youtu.be/QaOPbOeFNC4?...

06.08.2025 03:18 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Getting Started with Bicep’s Experimental MCP Server Learn how to easily author new Bicep files using the MCP server of Bicep

Bicep's MCP server is in experimental preview and was released 2 days ago.

I decided to give it a shot and capture all my findings. Check out my last blog post on how to get started with the new MCP server:

gijsreijn.medium.com/getting-star...

04.08.2025 03:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wondered what DSC v3 is? Read the blog post by Gijs. dsccommunity.org/blog/what-...

01.08.2025 03:40 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I wanted to run my PowerShell scripts faster on Azure DevOps agents and thought of moving them easily. Nope, there were some gotchas.

I grabbed those and published them into a blog post. Check out my new blog post at:

gijsreijn.medium.com/from-windows...

31.07.2025 04:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Woop woop, Dan Kershaw coming in with some hot news on the MS Graph Bicep extension:

techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azurego...

It's reached the General Availability phase. Try it out now!

30.07.2025 03:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What’s New in PSResourceGet: Azure Artifacts Credential Provider Explained Learn how you can use the Azure Artifacts Credential Provider to streamline authentication when installing PowerShell modules.

My very first post on Bluesky, starting off with a new blog post on covering the integration of Azure Artifacts Credential Provider in PSResourceGet:

gijsreijn.medium.com/whats-new-in...

29.07.2025 03:10 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0