I am trying to use Terraform to create a Service fabric cluster in Azure.
I have created configurations for the follwoing resources using a template provided by Tvo https://github.com/TrevorVonSeggern/ServiceFabric_Terraform
This will create the reasorces in Azure however the SFC just sits on "Deploying" and the Nodes themselves never display.
There seems to be a distinct lack of configuration resources for creating a Service fabric cluster using Terraform and HashiCorp's documentation on this resource example is not as in depth as for other resources.
Provisioning with Powershell is easier as more resources to guide.
If anyone has any working examples please can you share them?
Thanks
I have managed to deploy this successfully by deploying and then going through the extensions in the ARM template. Then adding (in JSON string) in the Terraform config for VMSS
Could not find anywhere in the Terraform documentation on this resource to assist with this.
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When working with Terraform, what features of Azure services are there that cannot be scripted in Terraform or require embedding ARM?
Currently, there is no resource to create Data Sync Group in Azure using Terraform
An ARM template configures the Azure PaaS resources to send their diagnostic data to Log Analytics. There is no functionality for this in Terraform when used with Azure
There is a zone to zone disaster recovery for Azure VM but terraform only provides single instance and target availability set in the azure site recovery
Almost all the new features added in Azure cannot be created using Terraform
The landscape for both Azure and Terraform is constantly changing, so it would not make much sense to list what is supported/not supported in a Stack Overflow context.
I have been working with Terraform in Azure for more than 5 years, and the AzureRM provider is being updated almost on a biweekly basis. In general, it is very much up to date - not only with new resources and data sources that are being added constantly but also updates on existing components functionality and when the Azure API changes. This provider rocks!
Take a look at the changelog here to get an overview of the intense activity on the AzureRM provider: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-azurerm/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
I believe that instead of asking what is not supported, take a look at the landscape you want to create, and see if the components exist in the documentation, which is very good IMO. I think that the latest AzureRM provider (2.91.0) has around 950+ resources and data sources.
Documentation: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/azurerm/latest/docs
Usually, when something does not exist there will be an issue in the Github repo. E.g. to follow the example that #RamaroAdapa-MT mentions, you can find the issue here (by a simple Google search):
https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-azurerm/issues/6425
Looking through that, you can see the the reason is actually not a Terraform AzureRM provider issue, but lack of support in the Azure API:
https://github.com/Azure/azure-rest-api-specs/issues/11061
Pls help !
I need create some web app from ansible, and add this web app to an existing VNet.
For create WebApp i use ansible module - azure_rm_webapp, and all work fine but i can`t find any way configuring network for created web app.
Can i do it from ansible?
How can i do this ?
I read about ansible module for creating network (may be there i can add , but also not find )
I am afraid that we can not do VNet integration using ansible module. Here are all modules for Azure by using ansible and ansible-playbooks samples.
In this case, you may consider using some shell, script, or win_shell modules to execute some commands on target hosts after the VM provision. Here is an arm template for deploying a web app with VNet integration.
If you consider other automatic deployment tools. I would like to recommend the terraform tool. it supports resource azurerm_app_service_virtual_network_swift_connection which makes you manage an App Service Virtual Network Association. Also, you can use ip_restriction block and scm_ip_restriction block under the resource azurerm_app_service to configure Access restriction.
I am new to Terraform and was wondering if we can use Terraform to implement a kind of disaster recovery for Azure API manager.
I know there is disaster recovery implementation by Microsoft for API manager but I wanted to explore if I can just recreate the whole thing using Terraform.
I am able to recreate the API manager using Terraform with the same configuration/APIs etc.
The only thing which is unclear to me how to back up and recreate the same subscriptions/products in API manager using Terraform.
For example, if someone deletes the API manager, I want to recreate it using Terraform and import all the existing products/subscriptions (keys).
Any ideas?
Similar to using ARM Templates, you can use Terraform to deploy Azure APIM as well. You refer the azurerm provider docs for more information.
But for all runtime data like users & subscriptions, you will have to consider setting up a backup/restore system utilizing the built-in feature.
After deploying APIM using terraform, you will have to restore the runtime data separately. Also, depending on your Recovery Time Objective, you will have to take frequent backups.
PS: Logic Apps are a great way to setup automatic backups. There is an official sample that you can refer to for this.
For provisioning AWS services(EC2/R53/VPC/S3/..), technology like Terraform have unreliable approach in terms of performing rollback, error handling etc.
AWS CloudFormation templates address these problems.
CloudFormation templates are used for both provisioning of aws services(like EC2/VPC/r53/S3/...) and configuration of every service.
Additionally this template approach should easily fit into scripted pipeline using Jenkins.
What is the approach for provisioning and configuration of services in Azure cloud?
Its called Azure Resource Manager (Peter gave a helpful link in the comments). You will interact with ARM through Azure powershell, Azure Cli, ARM Templates, different SDK's or just plain rest calls to create resources.
ARM Templates are the closest thing you can get to CloudFormation templates, but they dont really have all the features of CloudFormation templates.
For example, there is no preview of the changes that will happen before you run the template. some services can not be configured with ARM Templates (or some of the properties cannot be configured).
I’m trying to provision multiple Azure VMs using DSC (Desire state configuration). Unfortunately all examples and documentation out there show only simple “one machine” provisioning. I have experimented and research it but still cannot make it work.
By any chance, could somebody point me to example showing how to provision multiple VMs with different configurations?
Thanks!
You can use the Azure PowerShell cmdlets to create VMs and set DSC configurations on them. Here is a link to an article which describes the same
http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2014/08/05/understanding-azure-vm-dsc-extension/