Provison Reources

Terraform and git workflows are the most common way to automate provisoning of infrastructure on azure

Create Service Principal

Service principal will be used by terraform to login in azure and run the commands

az login
az account set --subscription=<subscrition id>
az ad sp create-for-rbac -n "api://<name of your choice>" --role "Contributor" --scopes "/subscriptions/<subscrition id>"

Output

{
  "appId": "bogus-bogus-4627-9010-bogus",  --Client id
  "displayName": "ahmarhusain",
  "name": "api://ahmarhusain",
  "password": "bogus.lAux7u-bogus", -- Client secret
  "tenant": "bogus-fa1a-bogus-9cf1-bogus"  -- Teanat id
}