Infrastructure as code: model and provision your Azure services with Terraform and Packer

Terraform

Versionning infrastructure
Multi-vendor (Azure, AWS, ...)
Dry run mode
Glossary
- Provider
- Variable
- Ressource
- Argument
- Attribut
Graph notion to represent dependencies (terraform graph)
SOLARIS !!!
Fast release cycle 1/2 weeks

Configure Terraform with Azure

Create a Service Principal in the Tenant
ConnexionAzure.tf
New resource group rg.tf
terraform init
terraform plan
terraform apply
Can update exisiting resources
Can return provider properties when created
terraform destroy -> clean what you just deployed

Packer

Create images
Glossary:
- Builder: create on a platform provider
- Provisioner: configure the image post boot

Configure Packer with Azure

Required stuff:
- Service principal
- NIC
- IP public
- Subnet
- Vnet
packer validate <file>
packer build <file>

CI/CD