Can you deploy bicep template with AzureResourceGroupDeployment task?

Question

Can you deploy directly bicep templates within a devops pipeline as in the following task? I keep getting issues about not being able to find the file so I'm wondering whether this task is just for json artifact deployment and not .bicep files

  - task: AzureResourceGroupDeployment@3
    displayName: "X) AzureResourceGroupDeployment"
    enabled: true
    inputs:
      azureSubscription: ${{parameters.azureServiceConnection}}
      action: 'Create Or Update Resource Group' # Options: create Or Update Resource Group, select Resource Group, start, stop, stopWithDeallocate, restart, delete, deleteRG
      resourceGroupName: "$(resourceGroupNameVar)"
      location: "${{parameters.location}}" # Required when action == Create Or Update Resource Group
      templateLocation: 'Linked artifact' # Options: linked Artifact, uRL Of The File
      csmFile: bicep/modules/storageAccount.bicep # Required when  TemplateLocation == Linked Artifact

Answer 1

With version 3 of the task, no. You have to transpile the Bicep to JSON first. i.e.

- script: | 
    az bicep install 
    az bicep build -f $BICEP_FILE_PATH
  displayName: 'Build Bicep'
  env:
    BICEP_FILE_PATH: ${{ parameters.BicepPath }}/${{ parameters.BicepTemplateName}}.bicep

Alternately, you could skip using the task and just use the az deployment command.