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Beginners Guide to Terraform with Azure

Terraform is an open source infrastructure as code tool. HashiCarp has developed it.

Terraform is used by almost all experts/engineers to create any cloud infrastructure. Terraform is go to tool for all the Cloud Engineers.

Below are the key benefits of terraform

We can codify our application infrastructure
An infrastructure that can be easily reproduced using terraform.
We can version control infrastructure, it can be kept securely and safely.
Why Terraform is so Popular?
Currently terraform is go to tool for any infrastructure provisioning tasks.

Below are the main reasons

Free to use.
Terraform is declarative language.
Learning curve is very short.
Once you learn terraform, it is easy to provision infrastructure in other cloud providers with minimal effort.
Syntax is same for other providers.
We can create Immutable infrastructure.
Once you don’t need infrastructure, we can destroy infrastructure. Which will save the cost for IT resources.
Terraform is master and agent less compared to other tools. Which saves costs.
How to install Terraform on laptop?
In order to install terraform please download appropriate package for your system as zip.

Steps to install on Mac/Linux
Unzip terraform
In order to move the terraform binary use command “mv terraform /usr/local/bin/”
In order to verify installation, run command “terraform -help”
Steps to install on Windows
Go to Control Panel --- System ---- System settings --- Environment Variables.
Scroll down in system variables until you find PATH.
Click edit and change accordingly.
BE SURE to include a semicolon at the end of the previous as that is the delimiter, i.e. c:\path; c:\terraform
Launch a new console for the settings to take effect.
In order to verify installation, run command “terraform -help”
What are all the basic commands of Terraform?
Below are main commands used in terraform

terraform init
This is the first command we run in terraform.
Command is used to initialise directory containing Terraform configuration files.
Command will automatically find, download, and install the necessary provider plugins mentioned in the configurations.
terraform fmt
Command is used to rewrite Terraform configuration files to a canonical format and style.
It does linting
It makes code more readable format
terraform plan
Command creates an execution plan.
Checks the current status with the existing backend / local state file.
Indicates any differences between the current infrastructure and the current code.
This is just a dry run, it doesn’t actually create any resources.
terraform apply
This command actually creates all the resources referenced in the Terraform configuration files.
Depending on the number of resources, it will take time to create those resources.
terraform destroy
Command is a convenient way to destroy all resources managed by the Terraform configuration.
This process is irreversible. Once the command is run, Terraform starts to destroy all resources

[akashpandey]

Hey, thanks for the video it really helpful. Can you please give us tutorial on how to integrate grafana with azure to monitor resources that would be really helpful.