Automating Azure Deployments with Terraform: Getting Started

Tired of manually creating resources through the portal? Infrastructure as Code (IaC) can simplify your deployments! There are several options for IaC, but Terraform is one of the more popular options. It works in all of the major cloud providers, easy to read and write, and has good documentation support. We'll dive into the basics of IaC and Terraform to including the Terraform command line tools, resources, variables, and data sources. We'll incorporate all of these into a simple, yet real-world, template to deploy Azure resources into an Azure Subscription.