Configure Azure
Configure Azure so Terraspace can connect to it. The recommended way is to:
- login with
az login - set up environment variables like
ARM_SUBSCRIPTION_ID,ARM_CLIENT_SECRET,ARM_TENANT_ID,ARM_CLIENT_ID
Example
To configure your az CLI, follow the Install the Azure CLI
instructions.
When you run az login you’ll be greeted with instructions to open up a webpage and enter the provided device token id.
$ az login
To sign in, use a web browser to open the page https://microsoft.com/devicelogin and enter the code EXAMPLE12 to authenticate.
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Note: You might have to specify the tenant id.
az login --tenant $ARM_TENANT_ID
That’s usually enough to set up the az CLI. Here are some commands to check access:
az account list -o table
az group list | jq '.[].name'
az storage account list | jq '.[].name'
Set up env variables
We set up ARM_SUBSCRIPTION_ID, ARM_CLIENT_SECRET, ARM_TENANT_ID, ARM_CLIENT_ID because terraspace uses it to handle things like automatically creating the Storage Account for the terraform state file. To get these env variables setup, follow the Azure Instructions. The Terraspace CI Azure Docs also have screenshots.
The azure_check script is useful to check that access is working. You should get something like this.
$ git clone https://github.com/boltops-tools/azure_check
$ cd azure_check
$ bundle
$ bundle exec ruby azure_check.rb
Successfully connected to Azure with your ARM_CLIENT_ID and ARM_CLIENT_SECRET
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Resources
Next, we’ll create a new project.
