Very simple deployment of a Windows VM

Description

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

This configuration allows you to deploy a simple Windows VM using a few different options for the Windows version, using the latest patched version. This will deploy a A2 size VM in the resource group location and return the fully qualified domain name of the VM, and it will deploy the following resources…

Note:

If there is already the specified resource group exists 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 the deployment.

Syntax

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

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

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

Example

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

# Plan
PS C:\Terraform\101-vm-simple-windows> terraform plan

var.adminPassword
Password for the Virtual Machine.
Enter a value: *********

<--- output truncated --->

# Apply
PS C:\Terraform\101-vm-simple-windows> terraform apply 

var.adminPassword
Password for the Virtual Machine.
Enter a value: *********

Output

azurerm_virtual_machine.avm-01: Creating...
azurerm_virtual_machine.avm-01: Still creating... [10s elapsed]

<--- output truncated --->

azurerm_virtual_machine.avm-01: Creation complete after 2m2s 

Apply complete! Resources: 9 added, 0 changed, 0 destroyed.

Outputs:

hostname = demodns2020.westus.cloudapp.azure.com

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