Azure/ALZ-Bicep v0.16.0 on GitHub

Summary

This release incorporates the ability to preview changes prior to deploying to your environment for the Accelerator. There are also some improvements to the Bicep Linter and associated configurations, bug fixes, and general improvements to the modules.

We have also pulled in the latest upstream policy changes from the Azure/Enterprise-Scale repo. See the What's New? for more info on what.

See the below "What's Changed" section for more information on the enhancements we have made

Highlights

Accelerator: This release introduces the Azure Bicep What-If operation within the Accelerator deployment scripts to be able to evaluate and analyze changes to your environment during a pull-request.
Relaxed linting rules and reduce maintenance overhead as part of #568
Added support for the new Sentinel simplified pricing tier in #582

Breaking Changes

As part of #582 we have introduced a very minor/small "breaking change", technically you don't need to do anything and you will just move to the new pricing model, however if you want to stay on your current/the old pricing model you need to do the following once upgrading to v0.16.0:

Set parUseSentinelClassicPricingTiers to true

What's Changed

Enhance Use of Bicep Linter & Simplify Config by @jtracey93 in #568
Issue forms by @jhajduk-microsoft in #562
Documentation: Added release process diagram by @oZakari in #569
FabricBot: Onboarding to GitOps.ResourceManagement because of FabricBot decommissioning by @microsoft-github-policy-service in #570
Update Policy Library (automated) by @cae-pr-creator in #572
Add if (parAzBastionEnabled) to nsg create bastion by @woutermation in #575
Update Azure resources APIs to recent versions before they are too old over 2 years by @VeronicaSea in #577
Enhance Accelerator documentation for Git by @oZakari in #580
Feature addvalidation by @MilesCameron-DMs in #539
PR for Feature #537: Simplify workflow names in Accelerator by @oZakari in #578
Add CODEOWNERS & Fix Sentinel Simplified Pricing by @jtracey93 in #582
Update Policy Library (automated) by @cae-pr-creator in #584

New Contributors

@microsoft-github-policy-service made their first contribution in #570
@woutermation made their first contribution in #575
@VeronicaSea made their first contribution in #577
@MilesCameron-DMs made their first contribution in #539

Full Changelog: v0.15.0...v0.16.0