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Objective: This lab documents the process of provisioning an Azure Resource Group and Virtual Network (with a subnet) using Terraform. It starts with a hardcoded configuration and progressively refactors it: extracting values into variables, loading defaults from a terraform.tfvars file, and using the hashicorp/random provider with string interpolation to generate a unique naming suffix for […]

Automating Secure Database Credentials with Terraform Every new environment (dev, staging, prod) needs its own database credentials. Making them up by hand doesn’t scale and it’s slow, inconsistent, and one weak password away from a problem. So I built a Terraform project that generates them automatically. What it does: Generates a random 4-character ID to

To demonstrate Terraform’s workflow in a simple, fun way, I’ll be creating a random pet resource. Here’s the first main.tf: So, Terraform would generate something like:  African-happy-lion-tiger. This configuration is hardcoded making it less flexible and harder to reuse across different environments. Terraform init: Initializes the working directory. It downloads the providers your config depends

What is a Resource Group? A resource group is a container that holds related resources for an Azure solution. The resource group can include all the resources for the solution or only those resources that you want to manage as a group. You decide how to allocate resources to resource groups based on what makes