Technical requirements
You will need an active Azure subscription to follow the exercises for this chapter. Currently, Azure is offering a free trial for 30 days with $200 worth of free credits, and you can sign up at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/free.
You will also need to clone the following GitHub repository for some of the exercises:
https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Modern-DevOps-Practices-2e
Run the following command to clone the repository into your home directory, and cd into the ch9 directory to access the required resources:
$ git clone https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Modern-DevOps-Practices-2e.git \ modern-devops $ cd modern-devops/ch9
You also need to install Terraform on your system. Refer to Chapter 8, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform, for more details on installing and setting up Terraform.
