Like many other things, Azure services can be deployed using JSON. Of course it’s not just json, it’s an entire language of deployment definitions and templating language hidden within json markup.

But next to that, Microsoft came out with bicep, which is a domain specific language for defining resources. It comes with a full language server and is honestly quite nice to use (if only azure services had some sort of reasonable logic to them)

I think k8 and friends need their own biceps.