Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Session 1: Basics

 What is Infrastructure as  Code?

Prepare Workspace

1. Install
1. Terraform: (https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/terraform/install-cli?in=terraform/azure-get-started)
2. Azure CLI: open PowerShell as administrator
   $ Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://aka.ms/installazurecliwindows -OutFile .\AzureCLI.msi; Start-Process msiexec.exe -Wait -ArgumentList '/I AzureCLI.msi /quiet'; rm .\AzureCLI.msi
3. Visual Studio Code
1. Terraform by HashiCorp
2. Azure Terraform by Microsoft
3. Azure Cloudshell (Powershell)
4. Azure CLI tools
2. Activate Azure Account

Create or open a project folder. Open the folder in VSCode. Create a file named main.tf.

Open a powershell terminal and issue:

$ az login

Paste the following to the main.tf file:

provider "azurerm" {

  features {}

}

resource "azurerm_resource_group" "aingelrg1" {

  name     = "Session1"

  location = "southeastasia"

}

On the terminal, follow through each of the commands

$ terraform init

Initialize terraform and check dependencies

$ terraform plan

Simulate what needs to happen in Azure

$ terraform apply

Execute the instruction in Azure. You need to type "yes" to confirm the execution.

$ terraform show

$ terraform destroy

Delete from Azure

You can checkout some samples at the following Git Repos:

https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-azurerm/tree/main/examples

https://github.com/aingelc12ell/jaira-terraform-azure/