Terraform is a tool for provisioning and managing infrastructure as code. It allows defining and deploying infrastructure through configuration files rather than interactive console tools. The configuration files describe the components needed for an application and their relationships, and Terraform uses this information to provision and update infrastructure safely and efficiently. Terraform works by defining resources such as compute instances, storage, and networking components using a high-level configuration language, and then generates and executes the plans to build, change, and version those resources. It supports a variety of cloud platforms including Azure.

1. Introduction to Terraform
with Azure flavor
Giulio Vian
Virtual DevOps & Cloud Conference

2. Hardware spec:
1 KB RAM
(16KB after upgrade)
4 KB ROM
(8KB after upgrade)
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Giulio Vian Senior DevOps Engineer
Virtual DevOps & Cloud Conference
giulio.dev@casavian.eu
@giulio_vian
https://www.slideshare.net/giuliov

3. What is Terraform?
Provisioning
• Terraform
• Azure ARM
Template
• Azure CLI
• Azure
Powershell
Configuration
• Powershell
DSC
• Chef
• Ansible
• Packer
Deployment
• Azure DevOps
• Octopus
Deploy

4. 0.12 ⋙ 0.11
Huge changes
Striving for compatibility

5. How it works
Command line tool
terraform init
terraform plan -out myplan.dat
terraform apply myplan.dat
Providers
Executables
azurerm, azuread, azurestack
State (metadata)

6. Enough slides

7. Links
https://www.terraform.io/
Y.Brikman, Terraform - Up and Running, O′Reilly
(2017) https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1491977086
(2019, 2nd ed.) https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1492046906
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/release-
notes/2019/pipelines/sprint-155-update#terraform-integration-
with-azure-pipelines
https://github.com/giuliov/terraform-fun
https://www.slideshare.net/giuliov

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