DevOps Classroomnotes 14/Oct/2022

Terraform with Azure Provider

Activity 3: Create a Storage account in Azure

• Manual Steps:
  • Create a new resource group /find an existing resource group.
    
    
    
    
  • Lets create a storage account
    
    
    
    
• We need to find a provider for azure Refer Here
• For resource group Refer Here and for storage account Refer Here
• Refer Here for authentication approaches
• For authentication lets install azure cli Refer Here. To authenicate into azure cli, launch powershell after installation az login
• apply the template Refer Here for the changes.
  
• Now lets add virtual network manually
  
  
• Refer Here for the terraform resource
• Apply the terraform template with -auto-approve. Refer Here for the changeset
  
  
• Next Steps:
  • We want to add flexibility to templates by parametrization/variables
  • We need to understand order of creation
  • What is the purpose of state file