'Create and Delete Resource Group in Azure using Bicep

Scenario :

I create a main.bicep file containing one resource group :

I scope the command to the subscription and create the resource group.

New-AzSubscriptionDeployment -TemplateFile .\main.bicep

I now want to delete the same resource group using the .bicep file , in Terraform i could do this by removing or commenting out the RG , but in Bicep it seems like the -Mode command needs to be scoped to resources in an existing RG and i cannot use the New-AzSubscriptionDeployment -Mode Complete command to remove the RG resource from Azure.

Is this a limitation of Bicep ? Does Resource Groups need to be manually removed when no longer needed ?

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Solution 1:[1]

Currently, yes they need to be removed manually. This isn't so much a limitation of bicep as it is the Azure platform.

There is a capability on the horizon that will allow you to clean up empty resourceGroups, no public ETA for that but it is in private preview at the moment.

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