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; 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 ch10 directory to access the required resources:

$ git clone https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Modern-DevOps-Practices-2e.git \
   modern-devops
$ cd modern-devops/ch10

You also need to install Terraform and Ansible on your system. Refer to Chapter 8, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform, and Chapter 9, Configuration Management with Ansible, for more details on installing and setting up Terraform and Ansible.