udacity-azure-devops

Introduction

In this project, we'll learn how to use Packer to build image and use Terraform to provision Azure resources

Getting Started

Before you start the project make sure you clone the starter code at this repo

Dependencies

1. Create an Azure account
2. Install Azure command line interface
3. Install Packer
4. Install Terraform

Instructions

Diving into the project here is how you can use Packer and Terraform.

• Packer:

1. az login to login to your Azure account and get credential
2. az ad sp create-for-rbac --role Contributor --scopes /subscriptions/your-subcription-id --query "{ client_id: appId, client_secret: password }" to create Role for Packer
3. Paste your previous step's output to create environment variables

    New-Item -Path Env:\ARM_CLIENT_ID -Value 'client-id'
    New-Item -Path Env:\ARM_CLIENT_SECRET -Value 'client-secret'
    New-Item -Path Env:\ARM_SUBSCRIPTION_ID -Value 'subcription-id'

4. Edit server.json file.
5. Run packer build .\server.json in the terminal to build the image you config in server.json

• Terraform:

1. Please follow thistutorial to store remote state in Azure Storage Account and get temporary credential
2. You need to import resource group first terraform import azurerm_resource_group.demorg /subscriptions/<resource-group-id>/resourceGroups/<resource-group-name> inorder to use the resource group you created from previous step
3. You can custom the resource just by changing the variable in variables.tf file
4. Running terraform init to init the module then terraform plan -out solution.plan to preview the change Terraform will make
5. Running terraform apply to apply the plan

Output

• The image we created by Packer
• The infrastructure provisioned by Terraform