Terraform and Azure Pipelines - Avoid these Beginner's Mistakes!

Video summary of my best practices article. Learn about YAML pipelines, properly referencing your Terraform State File but protecting the secrets, connect using client secrets (not az login) and securing everything with Azure Key Vault. Learn also about why you should create a custom role for Terraform. Watch this video, read the article and skip the beginners mistakes.

Link for "Terraform on Azure Pipelines Best Practices" Article:

00:00 Intro
00:30 #1 - Use YAML Pipelines, not UI
00:47 #2 - Use the Command Line, not YAML Tasks
01:24 #3 -Use Terraform Partial Configuration
02:48 #4 - Authenticate securely with a client secret
03:24 #5 -Create a Custom Role for Terraform
04:40 Closing

[blaikebradford]

Thank you for this! Just what I needed, solved a question I had been struggling to find an answer to.

[cybcon]

The "full" article was very helpfull - thank you!

[ameyamagashe]

Best content as like previous comment I totally agree that this 5 min video taught a lot of quality stuff

[kaparora]

Very informative, thanks Julie. I will check out your article 👍

[MatthewSelkirkKey]

wow, this video is a masterpiece, all the questions I needed answers to wrapped up in just over five minutes. Thank you, Julie! Heading over to the blog and gonna implement this stuff right away.

[sruthireddy]

The article is awesome.. very detailed and with reasoning.. very helpful 👌

[rabb]

This is brilliant, thanks. Heading over to read the article next

[alexandreg]

Love these DevOps redpills! Actually learnt a lot more practical stuff and good practices in this 5min video than in longer tutorial using tasks and stuff! Subscribed

[alexanderogorodnikov]

Super helpful article! Thank you very much, Julie.

[diegogarcialozano]

This article was great, really helpful! Exactly what I needed. Thanks!

[michaelmasas]

Excellent Video and Article.
Thanks !

[ZoSam]

Love it! Thank you for the great info and tips!

[sidpatel]

More of this pls, i just started sys admin role, this stuff is clutch tips.

[virathsem]

Thanks for this Julie! I created the local backend conf file outside of the git and TF working dir all together so I don't even need to worry about having to add my local stuff in gitignore. And wrote a simple bash script wrapper to execute the backend conf file and export local TF_Var's all in one shot. :)

[tomaszgolowanow]

Great tips!!! Saved me a lot of time . Thanks

[zimcanit]

Your depth of knowledge has earned you a new subscriber! Keep 'em coming :)

[marilynlucas]

Because of you, I will pick Azure over AWS

[sundarponnurangam]

I really liked your tips and it's short and sweet

[Panzerbjrn]

Really interesting. I liked the reasoning for using CLI instead of tasks. I would love to see a small video on how to store the state file :')

And how to use a service connection with Bash :')

[anibaldk]

How does this video not have more likes?? Seriously!