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Quickstart: Create a notification hub using Bicep

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Azure Notification Hubs provides an easy-to-use and scaled-out push engine that enables you to send notifications to any platform (iOS, Android, Windows, Kindle, etc.) from any backend (cloud or on-premises). For more information about the service, see What is Azure Notification Hubs.

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.

This quickstart uses Bicep to create an Azure Notification Hubs namespace, and a notification hub named MyHub within that namespace.

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.

@description('The name of the Notification Hubs namespace.')
param namespaceName string

@description('The location in which the Notification Hubs resources should be deployed.')
param location string = resourceGroup().location

var hubName = 'MyHub'

resource namespace 'Microsoft.NotificationHubs/namespaces@2017-04-01' = {
  name: namespaceName
  location: location
  sku: {
    name: 'Free'
  }
}

resource notificationHub 'Microsoft.NotificationHubs/namespaces/notificationHubs@2017-04-01' = {
  name: hubName
  location: location
  parent: namespace
  properties: {
  }
}

The Bicep file creates the two Azure resources:

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 --parameters namespaceName=<namespace-name>

    Note

    Replace <namespace-name> with the name of the Notifications Hub namespace.

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

Review deployed resources

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 you no longer need the logic app, use the Azure portal, Azure CLI, or Azure PowerShell to delete the resource group and its resources.

az group delete --name exampleRG

Next steps

For a step-by-step tutorial that guides you through the process of creating a Bicep file, see:

Quickstart: Create Bicep files with Visual Studio Code