azure-cli-extensions VS terraform-provider-azurerm

NOTE: If you're really curious to know what the --enable-network-observability flag does in Azure CLI, you can read through the source code here

The portal is handy, but we won’t use it in this article. Instead, let’s install the Azure command-line interface. The most recent version at the moment of writing is 2.30.0.

Azure CLI

With a bit of research I was able to find a very simple solution for this problem, and Azure CLI was again my best friend.

To learn more about Azure CLI, check this documentation.

Azure CLI installed and connected to your subscription

4) All the next steps that we're about to do can be done with the UI in Azure Portal, but we will use Azure CLI as much as possible. Also, I will name my Resource Group and App Service Plan as MyResourceGroup and MyLinuxPlan respectively. If you already have a Resource Group and App Service plan, you can continue using them. Or you can follow next step and substitute with names of your own choosing.

Bicep comes with a CLI that you can install locally on Windows, MacOS, and Linux. That gives you the ability to build and deploy your Bicep files with Azure CLI.

Azure CLI

So this is doing my head in. Related to https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-azurerm/issues/6117

https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/azurerm/latest/docs

There are different Terraform Providers that enable Terraform to interact with Microsoft Azure. The most common one are Azure Stack, AzureDevops, AzureRM, AzAPI and AzureAD.. In this tutorial, we use the AzureRM Terraform Provider. Let's create a Terraform file for the AzureRM Terraform Provider.

Yeah we imported all the related resources. I could now find an issue, which exactly describes our problem. Unfortunately it is open since 2020: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-azurerm/issues/8794

Like other people said, use the azurerm provider docs, they're pretty good. But that's where knowing Azure comes in handy because you'll have to figure out what TF resource to use to accomplish a given goal.

It’s not difficult at all syntactically. But you must understand the provider you are automating. So your azure knowledge is key in this case. Read the Azure provider docs and you will be easily able to put something together. https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/azurerm/latest/docs