Infrastructure as Code example with Terraform setting up Azure resources

Simple azure terraform example

Step-by-step introduction here

• https://aberner.github.io/iac-azure-terraform-example/

Quick guide:

prerequisite

• Terraform:
  • https://www.terraform.io/downloads.html
  • you should be able to run terraform -help
• Azure CLI:
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/cli/azure
  • you should be able to run az login

Nice to have

• Github client:
  • https://desktop.github.com
• A source-code editor (IDE)
  • https://code.visualstudio.com/

USAGE

1. Fork and download
2. Create the file terraform.tfvars
   • set the variable app_name
   • app_name = "<INSERT_HERE>"
3. Initialize Terraform
   • terraform init
4. Terraform plan
   • terraform plan

If everything now works, it's time to create your resources in Azure.

1. Authenticate towards Azure (if you haven't already done this)
   • az login
2. Create all the resources
   • terraform apply

Clean up

Remember to clean up and delete all the resources when the testing is done.

• terraform destroy