Using Terraform in Azure DevOps Pipelines PART 1 

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It should be the same but it must have all the prerequisites installed.

Those are all prerequisites to create the Terraform steps.

That's because you have to create a service principal first before even attempting to authenticate.

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@@skunklabz Do you mind sharing the exact thing you did to fix the issue when the Apply task failed as a result of Service Principal not properly scoped. Please kindly share that experience.

I figured out how that issue was fixed. In my own case I used Azure Resource Manager > Service Principal (manual) authentication method when creating the Service Connections of the DevOps project. Obviousely the Service Principal Key was actually required using this approach. Thought I should share.

Thanks for sharing the solution.

The pipeline would need to be modified to work on different triggers like on PR. This example I have here is just a high-level idea of what folks can do. How people implement is up to them. Everyone has different workflows and I can't cover all scenarios. Good point though.

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That's covered in part 2 of this video. Go check it out.

I believe I explained it in some other comment made here. But it had to do with granting the service principal the proper permissions.

Please check the comments here as there is someone that resolved the issue and posted what to do. It's been almost two years and don't remember what I did from the top of my head other than what I said in the video.

Sure thing!

That would be the resource group name you are going to use.

@@skunklabz going to use for ?

All resources in Azures require them to be associated with a resource group. What I meant was you can use an existing resource group that has been previously created, or as in this case, create a new one.

Sure: dev.azure.com/skunklabz/public/_git/terraform

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what you mean 90% match?

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You can use the same tasks in classic pipelines to get the same benefit.

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That's a very good topic to bring up and something I'd like to cover in the future. Thank you for valuable feedback.

@@skunklabz Will you be able to project a timeline for that?

Not at the moment.

@@skunklabz Ok. thanks

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@@skunklabz, I have been receiving a "Service returned an error. Status=403 Code="AuthorizationFailed" Any suggestions? Thank you in advance...

403 is forbidden but doesn't tell you much on what the underlying issue could be.

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Hi Rohit, I'm not too clear on what your ask is but Terraform can be run from either classic pipeline or pipeline as code. That's separate from Terraform itself.

@@skunklabz I see, you have any resources where i can learn how to use terraform from classic pipeline, and also i am trying to ask is that what benefits will i get by using terraform in my environment and currently there are no containers but i am planning to enhance it by introducing containers annd working on docker and kubernetes stuff and transition to devsecops too, so all i am tring to ask is, what value i can add through terraform in my environment? I hope it helps?

Hi Rohit. Terraform is primarily for managing resources in cloud using infrastructure as code. It's dependent on what cloud provider you're using and what resources you want to manage. Leveraging Terraform you can automate using pipelines with any CI tool not just Azure DevOps. In this video I just showed one particular example. There are many ways you can leverage Terraform.

@@skunklabz well right now i am not using any cloud environment, i have ON PREM environment, and we have azure devops servers which are connected to those ON PREM servers, so can i leverage terraform for introducing containers in my environment?

Unless you are hosting private cloud I'm not clear on how else you could leverage it for your needs. Containerization doesn't depend on something like Terraform.

I followed this: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/role-based-access-control/role-assignments-portal

@@skunklabz Thanks but my Service principle has contributor role, but it still does not work, please advice

@@abdulthakur5608 yeah that's what I did so not sure how to solve your issue. Sorry.

Please make more videos on azure DevOps

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