Terraform: 101-vm-multiple-data-disk

Create a Virtual Machine from a Windows Image with 4 Empty Data Disks

Description

This is a conversion of ARM template 101-vm-multiple-data-disk  from the repository azure\azure-quickstart-templates  to Terraform configuration.

This configuration allows you to create a Windows Virtual Machine from a specified image during the template deployment and install the VM Diagnostics Extension. It also attaches 4 empty data disks. Note that you can specify the size of each of the empty data disks. 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-multiple-data-disk> terraform init 

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

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

Example

# Initialize
PS C:\Terraform\101-vm-multiple-data-disk> terraform init 

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

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

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# Apply
PS C:\Terraform\101-vm-multiple-data-disk> 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 1s tf-rg
azurerm_public_ip.apip-01: Creating...

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azurerm_virtual_machine_data_disk_attachment.adattach-01[0]: Creation complete after 4m9s

Apply complete! Resources: 18 added, 0 changed, 0 destroyed.

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