Terraform contains a multitude of providers that enable the provisioning of various types of infrastructure, whether in the cloud or on-premise.
In the previous chapters of this book, we have studied the basic concepts of the Terraform language, as well as the main Terraform commands line and we have seen the sharing of Terraform configuration using modules. In addition, all the recipes we have seen in the previous chapters are generic and can be used by all Terraform providers.
In this chapter, we will focus on using Terraform to provision a cloud infrastructure in Azure. We will start with its integration into Azure Cloud Shell, its secure authentication, and the protection of the Terraform state file in an Azure storage. You will learn how to run ARM templates and Azure CLI scripts with Terraform and how to retrieve the Azure...
