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Quickstart: Create an Azure DNS zone and record using Bicep

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This quickstart describes how to use Bicep to create a DNS zone with an A record in it.

Bicep is a domain-specific language (DSL) that uses declarative syntax to deploy Azure resources. It provides concise syntax, reliable type safety, and support for code reuse. Bicep offers the best authoring experience for your infrastructure-as-code solutions in Azure.

Prerequisites

If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a free account before you begin.

Review the Bicep file

The Bicep file used in this quickstart is from Azure Quickstart Templates.

In this quickstart, you'll create a unique DNS zone with a suffix of azurequickstart.org. An A record pointing to two IP addresses will also be placed in the zone.

@description('The name of the DNS zone to be created.  Must have at least 2 segments, e.g. hostname.org')
param zoneName string = '${uniqueString(resourceGroup().id)}.azurequickstart.org'

@description('The name of the DNS record to be created.  The name is relative to the zone, not the FQDN.')
param recordName string = 'www'

resource zone 'Microsoft.Network/dnsZones@2018-05-01' = {
  name: zoneName
  location: 'global'
}

resource record 'Microsoft.Network/dnsZones/A@2018-05-01' = {
  parent: zone
  name: recordName
  properties: {
    TTL: 3600
    ARecords: [
      {
        ipv4Address: '1.2.3.4'
      }
      {
        ipv4Address: '1.2.3.5'
      }
    ]
  }
}

output nameServers array = zone.properties.nameServers

Two Azure resources have been defined in the Bicep file:

Deploy the Bicep file

  1. Save the Bicep file as main.bicep to your local computer.

  2. Deploy the Bicep file using either Azure CLI or Azure PowerShell.

    az group create --name exampleRG --location eastus
az deployment group create --resource-group exampleRG --template-file main.bicep

    When the deployment finishes, you should see a message indicating the deployment succeeded.

Validate the deployment

Use the Azure portal, Azure CLI, or Azure PowerShell to list the deployed resources in the resource group.

az resource list --resource-group exampleRG

Clean up resources

When no longer needed, use the Azure portal, Azure CLI, or Azure PowerShell to delete the resource group and its resources.

az group delete --name exampleRG

Next steps

In this quickstart, you created a:

  • DNS zone
  • A record