We are going to provision a virtual machine within the Microsoft Azure cloud using Terraform. We can use either Linux, Mac or Windows to run the terraform plan and apply.

Before you provision the machine ensure that you have

• terraform installed
• an Azure account
• the Azure CLI installed on the machine running terraform

Log into Azure using the Azure CLI.

az login

In the browser that pops up select your Azure account and log in. The JSON resulting from the login will state the subscription ID, the tenant ID, the home tenant ID and the user name.

Now in the terminal issue these commands.

git clone https://github.com/devops4me/terraform-azure-virtual-machine
terraform init
terraform plan
terraform apply -auto-approve
#  Now check that the resource group and VM infrastructure were created
terraform destroy -auto-approve