Would the community recommend using Cake for ARM template builds?

[DougalKennedy]

Currently I have a solution with some code producing ARM template JSON. I have an Azure devOps pipeline to execute the code, building the templates, validating the templates and finally deploying the actual infrastructure and other Azure resources.

Having been introduced to Cake by @gep13 last night (great presentation btw) the appeal to use it is obvious, I'm just wondering how close to the InfraAsCode world I can get here?

I guess as a minimum I could be using the Azure Resource Manager Template Toolkit as a build task in the Cake script?

[gitfool]

You might want to have a look at Pulumi first, which has dotnet/c# support, then try to drive it with Cake.Pulumi.