You're reading from Terraform Cookbook Master Infrastructure as Code efficiency with real-world Azure automation using Terraform

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804616420

Length 634 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Azure

Concepts

DevOps

Author (1):

Mikael Krief

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Setting Up the Terraform Environment

2. Writing Terraform Configurations FREE CHAPTER

3. Scaling Your Infrastructure with Terraform

4. Using Terraform with External Data

5. Managing Terraform State

6. Applying a Basic Terraform Workflow

7. Sharing Terraform Configuration with Modules

8. Provisioning Azure Infrastructure with Terraform

9. Getting Starting to Provisioning AWS and GCP Infrastructure Using Terraform

10. Using Terraform for Docker and Kubernetes Deployment

11. Running Test and Compliance Security on Terraform Configuration

12. Deep-Diving into Terraform

13. Automating Terraform Execution in a CI/CD Pipeline

14. Using Terraform Cloud to Improve Team Collaboration

15. Troubleshooting Terraform Errors

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

17. Index

Appendix A: Terraform Cheat Sheet

1. Appendix B: Terraform Resources

Enabling optional Azure features

One of the interesting points of the azurerm provider is the possibility to activate or deactivate some optional Azure features directly via the provider configuration.

To illustrate this provider feature, we will see in this recipe how to disable the deletion of an Azure resource group if this resource group contains resources.

Let’s get started!

Getting ready

To complete this recipe, no requirements are needed.

We consider that the Terraform configuration used in this recipe is already written and it provisions a resource group. Inside this resource group, we create an Azure Storage Account manually (via the portal, Azure CLI, or another Terraform configuration).

The source code of this Terraform configuration is available here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Terraform-Cookbook-Second-Edition/blob/main/CHAP08/feature/main.tf.

By default, without any other configuration, If we execute the command terraform destroy...