Terraform: 101-vm-customdata

Deploy a Virtual Machine with CustomData

Description

This is an Azure quickstart sample terraform configuration based on ARM template 101-vm-customdata  from the repository azure\azure-quickstart-templates .

This configuration allows you to create a Virtual Machine with Custom Data. This template also deploys a Storage Account, Virtual Network, Public IP addresses and a Network Interface, and it will deploy the following resources…

Note:

If the specified resource group is already exist then the script will not continue with the deployment. If you want to deploy the resources to the existing resource group, then import the resource group to state before deployment.

Syntax

# To initialize the configuration directory
PS C:\Terraform\101-vm-customdata> terraform init 

# To check the execution plan
PS C:\Terraform\101-vm-customdata> terraform plan

# To deploy the configuration
PS C:\Terraform\101-vm-customdata> terraform apply

Example

# Initialize
PS C:\Terraform\101-vm-customdata> terraform init 

# Plan
PS C:\Terraform\101-vm-customdata> terraform plan -var="adminUsername=cloudguy" 

var.adminPassword
The admin password of the VM.
Enter a value: *********

<--- output truncated --->

# Apply
PS C:\Terraform\101-vm-customdata> terraform apply -var="adminUsername=cloudguy" 

var.adminPassword
The admin password of the VM
Enter a value: *********

Output

azurerm_resource_group.arg-01: Creating...
azurerm_resource_group.arg-01: Creation complete after 2s 
azurerm_virtual_network.avn-01: Creating...

<--- output truncated --->

azurerm_linux_virtual_machine.avm-ssh-01: Still creating... [1m30s elapsed]
azurerm_linux_virtual_machine.avm-ssh-01: Creation complete after 1m39s 

Apply complete! Resources: 10 added, 0 changed, 0 destroyed.

Note

You can verify the Custom Data in the file /var/lib/cloud/instance/user-data.txt

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