Set Up your first Terraform environment on Windows

If you want to create your own or contribute to an existing GitHub project, you are on the right page.

Prerequisites​

IDE (Vscode): Download Visual Studio Code – Mac, Linux, Windows TF executable: Releases · hashicorp/terraform (github.com) or here https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/ Azure Subscription Azure CLI: How to install the Azure CLI | Microsoft Learn

Go​

Prerequisites

Create a storager account and container

Define the subscription to store the state

Install Terraform

Add it to the path

Type to test: terraform –version

1terraform --version

Create a new SPN or MI

Test connection

AZ login

1az login --use-device-code --tenant <your_tenant_id>

Set sub if you have multiple subscriptions

1az account set --subscription <your_subscription_id>

Create a container to store the tfstate

Store Terraform state in Azure Storage Microsoft Learn

 1$RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME='<your_rg_name>'
 2$STORAGE_ACCOUNT_NAME='<your_sta_name>'
 3$CONTAINER_NAME='tfstate'
 4$LOCATION =  "westeurope"
 5
 6# Create resource group
 7az group create --name $RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME --location $LOCATION
 8
 9# Create storage account
10az storage account create --resource-group $RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME --name $STORAGE_ACCOUNT_NAME --sku Standard_LRS --encryption-services blob

Create the container

Add storage blobh data contributor right

Create a backend file

1terraform {
2  backend "azurerm" {
3    resource_group_name  = "rg-terraform"
4    storage_account_name = "<your_sta_name>"
5    container_name       = "tfstate"
6    key                  = "mystatefile.terraform.tfstate"
7  }
8}

Run the following command to run the configuration:

1terraform init

A new state file will be created in the storage account.

Create your terraform code

Validate the code

1terraform validate

Format the code

1terraform fmt -recursive

Plan or apply

1terraform apply -auto-approve