Bicep Diagram Generator — Visualize Azure Bicep & ARM Templates Instantly

InfraSketch supports Azure Bicep and ARM JSON templates. Paste your .bicep file or ARM azuredeploy.json into the Bicep / ARM tab and get a full architecture diagram in seconds — VNet containment, subnet placement, resource connections, and official Azure icons. No login, no credentials, everything runs in your browser.

Why Azure Bicep needs a diagram tool

Bicep is Microsoft's domain-specific language for Azure infrastructure. It compiles to ARM JSON and deploys via Azure Resource Manager. A production Bicep template can define dozens of resources — virtual networks, subnets, AKS clusters, API Management gateways, SQL servers, Key Vaults, Service Bus namespaces, and more. Reading that code to understand the topology is slow and error-prone.

ARM JSON is even harder. A 1,000-line azuredeploy.json with nested dependsOn arrays and resourceId() references takes real effort to parse mentally. The Azure portal shows deployed resources but not their relationships. Visio and draw.io require manual box-drawing. There's no free tool that takes your Bicep or ARM code and generates a diagram automatically — until now.

InfraSketch parses Bicep and ARM JSON directly in the browser. No Azure subscription required. No CLI. No compile step. Paste and generate.

How to use it

Open infrasketch.cloud, click the Bicep / ARM tab, paste your template, and click Generate Diagram. InfraSketch auto-detects whether the input is Bicep syntax or ARM JSON — you don't need to switch modes.

// Bicep example — paste this into the Bicep / ARM tab
param location string = 'eastus'

resource vnet 'Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks@2023-04-01' = {
  name: 'prod-vnet'
  location: location
  properties: {
    addressSpace: { addressPrefixes: ['10.0.0.0/16'] }
  }
}

resource appSubnet 'Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/subnets@2023-04-01' = {
  parent: vnet
  name: 'app'
  properties: { addressPrefix: '10.0.1.0/24' }
}

resource aks 'Microsoft.ContainerService/managedClusters@2024-01-01' = {
  name: 'prod-aks'
  location: location
  properties: {
    agentPoolProfiles: [{ name: 'nodepool1', vnetSubnetID: appSubnet.id }]
  }
}

What gets visualized

Supported Azure resource types

InfraSketch maps 40+ Azure resource types from Bicep and ARM templates into diagram nodes with official Microsoft icons:

• Networking: Virtual Networks, Subnets, Application Gateway, Load Balancer, Front Door, Traffic Manager, VPN Gateway, Azure Firewall, Bastion, NSG, DNS Zones
• Compute: Virtual Machines, VM Scale Sets, AKS (Managed Clusters), Container Instances, App Service, Function Apps, Static Web Apps
• Containers: Container Registry (ACR), AKS node pools
• Data: SQL Server, SQL Database, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis Cache, Storage Accounts
• Integration: Service Bus, Event Hub, API Management, SignalR, Web PubSub
• AI & Analytics: Cognitive Services, Azure AI, Data Factory, AI Search
• Security: Key Vault, NSG
• Observability: Log Analytics Workspace, Application Insights

Resource types not yet in the mapping still parse — they're just omitted from the diagram rather than causing an error. Supported types grow with each release.

Bicep vs ARM JSON — both work

Bicep is the recommended authoring format for new Azure projects. ARM JSON is what Bicep compiles to, and what older templates use. InfraSketch supports both:

• Bicep: Parses resource varName 'Type@version' = { ... } syntax. Resolves parent references for containment. Follows varName.id and varName.name references for connections.
• ARM JSON: Parses the resources array in azuredeploy.json. Resolves dependsOn with resourceId() expressions. Reads properties.subnet.id and properties.virtualNetwork.id for containment.

{
  "$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2019-04-01/deploymentTemplate.json#",
  "contentVersion": "1.0.0.0",
  "resources": [
    {
      "type": "Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks",
      "name": "prod-vnet",
      "apiVersion": "2023-04-01",
      "location": "[resourceGroup().location]",
      "properties": {
        "addressSpace": { "addressPrefixes": ["10.0.0.0/16"] },
        "subnets": [{ "name": "app", "properties": { "addressPrefix": "10.0.1.0/24" } }]
      }
    },
    {
      "type": "Microsoft.ContainerService/managedClusters",
      "name": "prod-aks",
      "apiVersion": "2024-01-01",
      "location": "[resourceGroup().location]",
      "dependsOn": ["[resourceId('Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks', 'prod-vnet')]"],
      "properties": {}
    }
  ]
}

Use cases

• Azure landing zone reviews — visualize your hub-and-spoke VNet topology before deploying
• PR reviews — paste a PR's Bicep changes and see what new resources get created
• Onboarding — share a diagram with new engineers instead of asking them to read raw ARM JSON
• Documentation — export as PNG, SVG, or draw.io XML and embed in Azure DevOps wikis or Confluence
• Migration planning — diagram existing ARM templates before converting them to Bicep modules
• Architecture reviews — generate a diagram for an ARB submission without opening Visio

Bicep vs Terraform diagrams

If your team uses both Terraform (for AWS/GCP) and Bicep (for Azure), InfraSketch handles both in the same tool. Switch between the Terraform and Bicep / ARM tabs to diagram each side of a multi-cloud deployment. The layout zones — Internet, Ingress, Compute, Data, Messaging, Security — are consistent across providers, so diagrams from both tools are comparable at a glance.