Terraform

The following will walkthrough deploying Azure resources using Terraform in Azure DevOps Pipelines. Although its a detailed guide, there is an expectation that the person following already has a good understanding of Git, Azure and Terraform. It’s setup with the master or main branch created in DevOps and then cloned locally. A new branch is created and then committed to DevOps (Branch policies will restrict committing directly into master/main). A Pull Request is then created and the first pipeline is run which initialites a terraform plan and terraform validate....

In the following post I will demonstrate getting started with the Terraform Azure Provider. I’ll build the configuration for: Resource Group Virtual Network Subnet Network Security Group (Allow SSH) NSG Association 2 x Linux Virtual Machines 2 x Network Interface Cards 2 x Public IPs These will all be deployed them from Azure Cloud Shell. Remote vs Local State A quick note on the Terraform state file… I have decided to create a remote state file, stored in an Azure Storage Account in order to demonstrate the “backend” configuration....

In this post I will demonstrate how to deploy 2x Ubuntu Virtual Machines using the Terraform VirtualBox provider, terra-farm You can install VirtualBox on Ubuntu using this guide. The main.tf file is configured to use a network adapter called vnetbox1, so you need to ensure it is created and set DHCP Server to Enable. Install Terraform Let’s start by installing Terraform. The following is from the official Terraform documentation: Add the Terraform gpg key....