Terraform Azure Provider Overview

The officially supported Nitric Terraform Azure Provider.

provider: nitric/azuretf@latest

Prerequisites

The Terraform CLI is required to deploy the resulting Terraform Stack that Nitric generates. You can find the installation instructions for Terraform in the Terraform documentation.

The provider is built with the Cloud Development Kit for Terraform (CDKTF). Since CDKTF relies on Node.js, you'll need to have Node.js installed, you can read about the full CDKTF prerequisites in the CDKTF documentation.

Enabling Nitric Terraform Providers

The Nitric Terraform providers are currently in preview, to enable them you'll need to enable beta-providers in your Nitric project. You can do this by adding the following to your project's nitric.yaml file:

preview:
  - beta-providers

Azure Credentials

The Terraform CLI typically uses standard Azure credential settings to authenticate with Azure. If you've set credentials for the Azure CLI or an Azure SDK previously, these settings should work without modification.

If you're setting up your credentials for the first time, simply run azure login command and finish the login via your browser.

az login

Verify the Azure CLI install -

az -v

Azure CLI Installation

Installing the Azure CLI assists with credentials setup. You can install it using these summarized instructions, for more options see the Microsoft docs.

Locating deployed resources

This Nitric Azure provider deploys resources for a stack into a resource group dedicated to that stack. You can either use one that you already have by configuring it in the stack configuration or let Nitric create one for you.

Once a stack has been deployed to Azure it's resource group should be present in the Resource groups page of the portal. Assuming it was deployed to a subscription you have access to.

Stack Configuration

# The provider to use and its published version
# See releases:
# https://github.com/nitrictech/nitric/tags
provider: nitric/azuretf@latest

# The target Azure region to deploy to
# See available regions:
# https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/explore/global-infrastructure/products-by-region/?products=container-apps
region: my-azure-stack-region

# Org to associate deployed API Management services with
org: example-org

# Admin email to associate deployed API Management services with
adminemail: test@example.com

# Subscription ID to associate deployed services with
subscription-id: example-subscription-id