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Terraform Cookbook

You're reading from   Terraform Cookbook Efficiently define, launch, and manage Infrastructure as Code across various cloud platforms

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800207554
Length 366 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mikael Krief Mikael Krief
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Preface 1. Setting Up the Terraform Environment 2. Writing Terraform Configuration FREE CHAPTER 3. Building Dynamic Environments with Terraform 4. Using the Terraform CLI 5. Sharing Terraform Configuration with Modules 6. Provisioning Azure Infrastructure with Terraform 7. Deep Diving into Terraform 8. Using Terraform Cloud to Improve Collaboration 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Provisioning and configuring an Azure VM with Terraform

In this recipe, we will study a typical use case of Terraform in Azure in which we will provision and configure a VM in Azure using Terraform.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we don't need any special prerequisites. We will start the Terraform configuration from scratch. This recipe will only involve writing the Terraform configuration. In its stages of realization, we will study the writing of this code. As for the architecture in Azure, we have already built a network beforehand, which will contain this VM and which is made up of the following resources:

  • A virtual network (VNet) called VNET-DEMO.
  • Inside this VNet, a Subnet named Subnet1 is registered.

In addition, the VM that will be provisioned will have a public IP address so that it can be accessed publicly.

Finally, in keeping the VM's password secret in the code, we protect it in an Azure Key Vault, as studied in the Using Azure Key Vault with Terraform to protect...

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