Deploy Azure Infrastructure using Terraform Cloud

Note: You can get the whole code from this repository: aniketkumarsinha/azure-terraform-infrastructure

What is Terraform?
Terraform is an infrastructure as code tool that lets you define both cloud and on-prem resources in human-readable configuration files that you can version, reuse, and share.

Terraform Flow

• First you have the terraform code.
• Then we have Terraform Plan phase. The terraform plan command creates an execution plan, which lets you preview the changes that Terraform plans to make to your infrastructure.
• Terraform Apply phase executes the actions proposed in a Terraform plan.
• And everything gets deployed over the CSP, here Azure.
  

What is Terraform Cloud?
Terraform Cloud is a managed service offering by HashiCorp that eliminates the need for unnecessary tooling and documentation for practitioners, teams, and organizations to use Terraform in production. It allows you to provision infrastructure in a remote environment that is optimized for the Terraform workflow.

In this blog, we will be creating Azure Infrastructure using Terraform and will be deploying it over to Azure using Terraform Cloud.

Infrastructure Code
We are creating a VM and resources related to it.

Setting up Terraform Cloud

1. Create Terraform Cloud Account – Terraform Cloud
2. Create a Project in Terraform Cloud:
   
3. Create a Workspace.
   
   • Choose Version control workflow
     
   • Connect to a version control provider
     
   • Choose your Azure Infrastructure repository from your repository list. You can check the advance settings if you want to configure the workflow.
     
   • Tap on Create Workspace button to create your workspace in terraform cloud Or Start new run from workspace overview page.
4. You can directly start your plan phase.
   
5. You can verify in your projects page that your workspace has been created.
   
6. Open your workspace to start new run.
   
7. Choose your run type and start run.
   
8. Ouch!! Errors!!
   We are getting error in provider phase. The reason behind this is that we have authorized our infrastructure to connect and write over our Azure. We will be creating an App provide all the necessary details to our infrastructure.
   

Authorizing Terraform Infrastructure to write over Azure

provider "azurerm" {
  features {}

  skip_provider_registration = "true"

  # Connection to Azure
  subscription_id = var.subscription_id
  client_id = var.client_id
  client_secret = var.client_secret
  tenant_id = var.tenant_id
}

• Add variables in Variables page.
  
  • In Key add the words with var, i.e., var.key, and in Value add required Ids’ and Secret.
    

Let’s rerun the workflow!

Ohhhhh!!!! ERROR AGAIN!!!!

But we are still left with some more code 😛
We need to add variables.tf file mentioning about these variables.

And now finally we can get the results from Plan and Apply phase. Let’s rerun the pipeline.

Let’s confirm over our Azure Portal too.
Yes we can see all our resources present under our subscription.

🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

Damn!!!! We learnt so many things today. We first created the Terraform Infrastructure, setup our Terraform Cloud profile and then used it to deploy resources over Azure too. Now you can say you’re a pro in Terraform and Terraform Cloud.

Let me provide you a bonus happiness. So the project which we configured over Terraform Cloud, automatically runs the workflow any branch is merged to the main branch or any new pushes are done to main branch.

You can get the whole Infrastructure as Code from this repository:

Note: Tried of creating this doc as a demo with all process/steps in creating this project

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