Azure Infrastructure Operations Project: Deploying a scalable IaaS web server in Azure

Introduction

For this project, you will write a Packer template and a Terraform template to deploy a customizable, scalable web server in Azure.

Archtecture

Scenario

Your company's development team has created an application that they need deployed to Azure. The application is self-contained, but they need the infrastructure to deploy it in a customizable way based on specifications provided at build time, with an eye toward scaling the application for use in a CI/CD pipeline.

Although we’d like to use Azure App Service, management has told us that the cost is too high for a PaaS like that and wants us to deploy it as pure IaaS so we can control cost. Since they expect this to be a popular service, it should be deployed across multiple virtual machines.

To support this need and minimize future work, we will use Packer to create a server image, and Terraform to create a template for deploying a scalable cluster of servers—with a load balancer to manage the incoming traffic. We’ll also need to adhere to security practices and ensure that our infrastructure is secure.

Getting Started

1. Clone this repository

2. Create your infrastructure as code

3. Update this README to reflect how someone would use your code.

Dependencies

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

Instructions

1. Deploy a Policy
   • Write a policy definition to deny the creation of resources that do not have tags.
   • Apply the policy definition to the subscription with the name "tagging-policy".
   • Use az policy assignment list to check the policy assigned.

Output

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