Configuring Terraform for Azure

Before writing the Terraform code in which to provision a cloud infrastructure such as Azure, we must configure Terraform to allow the manipulation of resources in an Azure subscription.

To do this, first, we will create a new Azure Service Principal (SP) in Azure Active Directory (AD), which, in Azure, is an application user who has permission to manage Azure resources.

Important Note

For more details about the Azure SP, please read the documentation at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/app-objects-and-service-principals.

For this Azure SP, we have to assign to it the contributing permissions on the subscription in which we will create resources.

Creating the Azure SP

This operation can be done either via the Azure portal (all steps are detailed within the official documentation at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/howto-create-service-principal-portal) or via a script by...