{"id":10855,"date":"2021-11-18T09:38:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T08:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whiteduck.de\/?p=10855"},"modified":"2021-11-18T09:38:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T08:38:58","slug":"production-ready-terraform-project-scaffolding-for-azure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whiteduck.de\/en\/production-ready-terraform-project-scaffolding-for-azure\/","title":{"rendered":"Production-ready Terraform project scaffolding for Azure"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Production-ready Terraform project scaffolding for Azure<\/p>\n

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Many modern applications are built with Cloud Native patterns<\/a> in mind and therefore rely on Cloud resources and infrastructure. However, you also need to think about how to build and manage these resources. This is where Infrastructure as Code and T<\/a>erraform<\/a> (and many others) come in. In this post, we will provide you with everything you need to know to scaffold a production-ready Terraform project for Azure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But let’s start with the basics first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the management and provisioning of infrastructure through code rather than manual processes.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The main idea is to describe our infrastructure as code to be able to store and version it via Git. The code is written in a declarative manner and therefore easy to read, self-documented, and also reusable. Furthermore, Infrastructure as Code is fully automated without any manual intervention needed. With this in place Infrastructure as Code brings us many great benefits like testing our infrastructure, easy and fast rollbacks\/restores, configuration drift prevention, and many more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That said, we also need a toolchain that supports us in maintaining and declaring our Cloud resources. This is where Terraform<\/a> comes into play. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Terraform is an Infrastructure as Code tool that provides a consistent CLI workflow to manage hundreds of cloud services. Terraform codifies cloud APIs into declarative configuration files.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Terraform & Azure<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Terraform contains of a CLI and a domain-specific language called HCL (Hashicorp Configuration Language) that are used to define and manage Cloud resources. Terraform itself is open-source and is actively maintained by Hashicorp<\/a>. It is flexible and supports tons of Cloud providers and resources. Talking of the Azure ecosystem, we can use Terraform to manage:<\/p>\n\n\n\n