Utilities

General purpose helpers for Bicep deployments, such as running scripts and generating values.

Community Maintained

Version	0.0.1
Artifact	br:ghcr.io/anthony-c-martin/bicep-ext-utilities:0.0.1
Source	github.com/anthony-c-martin/bicep-ext-utilities
Publisher	anthony-c-martin
Licence	MIT
Category	Utilities

Installation

Register the extension in bicepconfig.json:

{
  "experimentalFeaturesEnabled": {
    "localDeploy": true,
    "ociEnabled": true
  },
  "implicitExtensions": [],
  "extensions": {
    "utilities": "br:ghcr.io/anthony-c-martin/bicep-ext-utilities:0.0.1"
  }
}

Then reference it from your Bicep file:

extension utilities

Overview

A collection of general purpose helpers for local deployments. The extension needs no configuration:

extension utilities

Resource type	Purpose
Wait	Pause for a period, for example while another resource settles.
Script	Run a script as part of the deployment.
Command	Run a single command and capture its output.
Assert	Fail the deployment when a condition is not met.

Example

targetScope = 'local'

extension utilities

resource settle 'Wait' = {
  duration: 'PT30S'
}

resource version 'Command' = {
  command: 'git'
  arguments: ['rev-parse', '--short', 'HEAD']
}

output commit string = version.stdout

Notes

• These resources run commands on the machine performing the deployment, with that machine's privileges. Treat their inputs as you would any other script input.
• Command and Script are not idempotent by nature — they execute on every deployment.

Samples

4 example Bicep files are available under Samples.

Resource types

This extension exposes 4 resource types, documented under Reference.

Reference generated from ghcr.io/anthony-c-martin/bicep-ext-utilities:0.0.1 on 2026-08-23.