Getting Started With Terraform on Azure

Check out the official Get Started - Azure tutorial here

Terraform basics

Download and Install

• Download terraform from https://www.terraform.io/downloads.html

• Extract the executable and add the folder to your PATH variable

• Open a shell and type terraform version

• The basic commands we’ll use are:

  • terraform init
  • terraform plan
  • terraform apply
  • terraform destroy

• I advise you to use the terraform fmt command often to ensure your scripts well formatted according to HashiCorp’s style conventions

Folder structure

Terrafrom executes on the files within a folder that are named with the .tf extension. Here is what a typical folder structure looks like: