Adding Terraform/Ansible infrastructure lab #9
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Signed-off-by: Facundo Gauna <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Facundo Gauna <[email protected]>
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| Next, create a resource group and a storage account. We will use the storage account for the Terraform backend. | ||
| Substitue `[your-name]` with your first name to avoid name collisions with your peers. |
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| Substitue `[your-name]` with your first name to avoid name collisions with your peers. | |
| Substitute `[your-name]` with your first name to avoid name collisions with your peers. |
| export ARM_ACCESS_KEY=$(az storage account keys list -g $RESOURCE_GROUP_STATE -n $STORAGE_ACCOUNT_STATE --query "[0].value" -o tsv) | ||
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| Now, from Visual Studio Code, open the `backend.tf` file. |
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| Now, from Visual Studio Code, open the `backend.tf` file. | |
| Now, from Visual Studio Code, open the `terraform/backend.tf` file. |
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| cd ansible |
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| cd .. | |
| cd ansible | |
| cd ../ansible |
| Before you run the Terraform configuration, you'll need to pick a password for your virtual machine. | ||
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| export TF_VAR_admin_password="<your password here>" |
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We should also pass in the user's name or randomize the Resource Group name created as part of the Terraform run
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| That's it! 🎉 | ||
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| You created a virtual machine using Terraform, then used Ansible to configure the virtual machine. |
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We should maybe add a way to validate a successful run for the user after this
| cd .. | ||
| cd terraform |
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| cd .. | |
| cd terraform | |
| cd ../terraform |
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| cd .. | ||
| cd terraform | ||
| terraform destroy |
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| terraform destroy | |
| terraform apply -destroy |
| Next, login to Azure. Ensure you have the right subscription selected. | ||
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| az login |
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Running this in GitHub Codespaces in the browser, I got a 404 on the callback from az login and had to allow pop-ups from my Codespace. Another option would be to use az login --use-device-code when running from the Codespaces in the browser
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| Next, create a resource group and a storage account. We will use the storage account for the Terraform backend. | ||
| Substitue `[your-name]` with your first name to avoid name collisions with your peers. |
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We'll want to add verbiage around here where their name must be less than or equal to 17 characters and all lower case letters
Adding a lab for using Terraform to provision a Windows VM and using Ansible to configure it.
It is based on a real-world example where there needed to be a DNS forwarder configured for Azure Private Link DNS zones.