DevOps Classroom notes 24/May/2025

Terraform contd…

Configuring Terraform to work with Azure

• Terraform by default uses Azure CLI Credentials
• Once Azure CLI is installed. Launch Terminal and execute az login command
• Azure has two providers
  • hashicorp: this is what we will be using
  • microsoft

Lets create a storage account in Azure

• Refer Here for quick start
• Resources
  • Resource Group:
    • inputs:
      • name
      • location
  • Storage Account
• First we need to create resource group
• Refer Here for the work done

Order of Creation

• In Terraform, Resources are created in parallel unless they are dependent on each other.
• There are two ways of defining dependencies
  • intrinsic/implicit
  • extrinsic/explicit

Resource name in terraform

• This refers to pointing to a specific resource type.name

resource "azurerm_resource_group" "base" {
    name = "fromtf1"
    location = "centralindia"

}

# azurerm_resource_group.base

Explicit Dependency

• Explicit dependecy can be added to a resource by using a meta argument called as depends_on

resource "azurerm_storage_account" "store" {
    name = "fromtfltmay25"
    resource_group_name = "fromtf1"
    location = "centralindia"
    account_tier = "Standard"
    account_replication_type = "RAGRS"
    # explicit dependency
    depends_on = [ azurerm_resource_group.base ]

}

• Refer Here for the template with depends_on