terraform-louie

This repository is a space for any Terraform exercises completed as part of the 2025 Platforms Academy.

Required Steps

1. Create a new resoource group to hold the resouces for this activity: az group create --name <RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME> --location <LOCATION>

2. Create a new storage account to enable terraform access to your azure resources: az storage account create --name <STORAGE_ACCOUNT_NAME> --resource-group <RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME> --location <LOCATION> --sku Standard_LRS --encryption-services blob

3. Create a new storage container to hold and track the terraform state files: az storage container create --name terraform-state --account-name <STORAGE_ACCOUNT_NAME>

4. Retrieve the Storage Account Key for the Terraform backend az storage account keys list --account-name <STORAGE_ACCOUNT_NAME> --query "[0].value" --output tsv

• Ensure to include a secrets.tfvars file in your local repository to hold any variables. This will be ignored and will not be published to the repository.

Running Terraform

terraform init

terraform plan

terraform apply

terraform apply -var-file "secrets.tfvars" # Optional
terraform apply -var-file="dev.tfvars"
terraform apply -var-file="prod.tfvars"

terraform destroy