Terraform contd..

Activity: Create virtual network in Azure

• Manual Steps:
  • Create resource group
    
    
    
  • Create a VNET with cidr range 192.168.0.0/16
    
    

Writing template for the above in terraform

• Terraform takes the folder as input and reads all the .tf files and while validating,applying or destroying tries to treat all fo the .tf files as one file.
• To Create dependencies we can use depends on meta argument Refer Here
• The resource name in terraform is <resource_type>.<name>
• Refer Here for the changeset
  
• Note:
  • The commands which we started following init, fmt, validate, apply

Focus Points

• To Work effectively with terrform templates we need to understand Hashicorp Configuration Language
• How to parametrized the template