Provide Run name to Terraform Cloud execution using CLI - terraform

I am looking for an option from Terraform CLI to provide a run name in terraform Cloud. Ideally that happens if I execute it with Terraform API driven approach.
Here you can see, you can add Reason for Starting a run , Is there an option present to provide the same in CLI?

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What is the behaviour Terraform Plan?

Learning Terraform, and in one of the tutorials for terraform with azure a requirement was to log in with the az client. Now my understanding is that this was to create a Service Princlple.
I was trying this with Github actions and my assumption was that the properties obtained for the Service Principle. When I tried running terraform plan everything worked out fine.
However, when I tried to do terraform apply it failed until I explicitly did an az login step in the github workflow job.
What am I missing here? Does terraform plan only compare the new configuration file against the state file, not the actual account? Or does it verify the state against the resource-group/subscription in Azure?
I was a little confused with the documentation on terraform plan

Run terrform in azure functions powershell

We are developing an azure function which should run terraform cmdlets like init, plan and apply.
when we run above commands in powershell, we are getting below error.
Error checking configuration: <nil>: Failed to read module directory; Module directory C:\home\site\wwwroot\databricks-user-sync-modules does not exist or cannot be read
My run.ps1 file includes below sinppet
write-output (terraform --version)
Write-Output ((Get-ChildItem).Name)
Get-Content -Path main.tf
write-output (terraform init)
terraform plan -var-file dev.tfvars
How to run terraform in azure functions.
The error message you are receiving may or may not be related to your attempt to use terraform in Azure Functions.
I'd initially ask whether Azure Functions is the ideal solution to the problem you're trying to solve?
Based on the fact that the functions runtime doesn't include the terraform binary in order to run tf cli commands. You may have more success using Azure Devops pipelines or Github Actions to deploy your terraform code.
Both AzDo and Github can trigger CI/CD operations via a webhook.
https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/events-that-trigger-workflows#repository_dispatch
and
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/release-notes/2020/pipelines/sprint-172-update
Unless I am missing something obvious, you may have to provide more context around why you're using Azure Functions for this scenario

Terraform doesn't have a Ground Truth resource. How do I create my own resource?

As far as I can tell, terraform doesn't have any support for Sagemaker Ground Truth. However AWS CLI does support it.
I don't want to create a whole new provider as a plugin, especially as this falls under aws.
How do I create my own resource within the existing aws provider?
You have a couple options here (and in general, when something isn't supported by the Terraform AWS provider).
If the resource in question is supported by CloudFormation, you can use the aws_cloudformation_stack Terraform resource to create a custom CloudFormation stack that creates and tracks the state of the resource. Here's the CloudFormation documentation for SageMaker; see if you can find the resource you want in there anywhere.
If it's only supported by the CLI (not by CloudFormation), you can use the CLI in your Terraform configuration. This is the module I like to use for doing CLI work in Terraform. The downside is that you must have the AWS CLI installed on whatever machine you're doing the terraform apply on.

How Do I Combine Terraform With Azure CLI and REST API?

I have a most of my Azure infrastructure managed with Terraform.
However, I am quickly finding that a lot of the small details are missing.
e.g. client secrets aren't fully supported https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-azuread/issues/95
It doesn't seem possible to add an Active Directory Provider to APIM
How Do I Add Active Directory To APIM Using Terraform?
Creating the APIM leaves demo products on it that can't be removed
How Can I Remove Demo Products From APIM Created With Terraform?
etc, etc.
Solutions to these seems to be utilising the cli
e.g. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/ad/app/permission?view=azure-cli-latest#az-ad-app-permission-add
Or falling back to the REST API:
e.g.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/apimanagement/2019-01-01/apis/delete
How can I mix terraform with the CLI and REST API?
Can they be embedded in terraform?
Or do I just run some commands to run them after terraform has finished?
Is there a way to do these commands in a cross platform way?
Will running the CLI and REST API after terraform cause the state to be wrong and likely cause problems the next time terraform is run?
How can I mix terraform with the CLI and REST API?
You can use the Terraform provisioner local-exec or remote-exec. In these ways, you can run the script with CLI commands or the REST API. For more details, see local-exec and remote-exec. But you need to take care of them. These two ways just run the scripts and display the output, but they do not have the outputs.
If you want to use the result of the script in the same Terraform file for other resources, you need to use the Terraform external data source, see the details here.
Update:
Here is an example.
Bash script file vmTags.sh:
#!/bin/bash
az vm show -d -g myGroup -n myVM --query tags
Terraform external data source:
data "external" "test" {
program = ["/bin/bash", "./vmTags.sh"]
}
output "value" {
value = "${data.external.test.result}"
}

How to add azure function's javascript / c# code into terraform scripts?

I am working in a project that will be deployed at my client's Microsoft Azure. Thus I am currently testing terraform to assist me when the time comes.
create a azure function with terraform that will trigger on blob storage input data
My question is about how to add the azure functions's javascript/c# code into the terraform script so it will be automatically deployed ?
I checked the terraform docs, but it wasn't of much help:
https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/azurerm/r/function_app.html
Any ideas?
Terraform doesn't handle pushing code to Azure resources, that's usually done in a following step in the pipeline (e.g. 1- execute terraform 2- deploy code).
However, the Azure Function App does have the ability to connect directly to your repo, and the Terraform azurerm_function_app module exposes the source_control property.
Terraform's azurerm_function_app documentation
So with Terraform you can configure the function app to pull the code directly from the repo when a change is detected.
Microsoft's Azure Function Continuous Deployment documentation

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