Bicep and Terraform Code generation (without AI) by Thomas Hafermalz

Don't find the right example for your cloud service you want to deploy with infrastructure as code in the official documentation or tech forums? No co-pilot available or with unsatisfying results? This session shows with hands-on demos, how you can "generate" code for your cloud infrastracture with Visual Studio Code and some extensions & tools. It has examples for Bicep, ARM and Terraform - without any co-pilot.

About Thomas:
I support customers from various industries in Azure projects. Besides I blog / write articles on Azure topics and co-organize the Azure Zurich User group on meetup.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomashafermalz/
https://thomashafermalz.net/

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1. Generate & Transform IaC Code Bicep, Terraform, VS Code Thomas Hafermalz 30.09.2024 AZUG Meetup
2. THOMAS HAFERMALZ  Azure Solution Architect & Trainer (Zurich, )  Study: Industrial Environmental Informatics  Meetup: Azure Zurich User Group www.thomashafermalz.net www.linkedin.com/in/thomashafermalz
3. AGENDA ▪ Why IaC? ▪ Bicep & ARM ▪ Terraform ▪ Demo
4. WHY IAC
5. ▪ Repeat your steps ▪Idempotence / declaration ▪Easier deployment across stages ▪Reproducibility / consistency ▪ Repositories ▪Traceability ▪Versioning ▪Teamwork BENEFITS OF IAC:
6. ▪ Create from scratch ▪examples from documentation ▪Stackoverflow etc… ▪Where is MY usecase??? ▪ Existing templates in other language CHALLENGES (GET THE CODE)
7. BICEP
8. ▪ Generate parameter files ▪ Import as Bicep code per resource ID ▪ Convert Bicep <-> ARM ▪Existing templates / snippets ▪ Helpful: Deployment Pane (experimental) ▪No bicepparam files atm BICEP OPTIONS
9. ▪ VS Code ▪Extensions ▪Bicep ▪Azure CLI (scrapbooks) / Powershell ▪ Bicep CLI ▪Incl. in Azure CLI, additional needed for PowerShell WHAT DO I NEED?
10. BICEP DEMO
11. TERRAFORM
12. ▪ Write code from existing infrastructure ▪Portal created ▪ No change / redeploy of resources (production) ▪State import BACKGROUND
13. ▪ Import Block & config generate ▪Terraform v1.5 ▪ https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language/import/generating-configuration ▪ Tf export tool («Terrafy») ▪Generate HCL incl. statefile ▪Various filter options for scope ▪Only Azure resources TERRAFORM OPTIONS 1
14. ▪ Import from state ▪View on resource configuration (diagnostic tables) ▪ Azure portal export(soon) ▪ Other tools ▪Terraformer (GCP) and terracognita ▪Terraforming (AWS) TERRAFORM OPTIONS 2
15. ▪ Features ▪Import complete RG with/without statefile ▪Interactive/automatic ▪Edit resource mapping ▪ Filters (query) ▪Single resource ▪Resource type (provider) ▪tags TERRAFORM EXPORT TOOL
16. ▪ VS Code ▪Terraform runtime ▪Extensions ▪HashiCorp Terraform / Azure Terraform ▪Azure CLI (scrapbooks) / Powershell ▪ TF Export Tool ▪https://github.com/Azure/aztfexport/releases WHAT DO I NEED?
17. ▪ Available set of modules supported by Microsoft ▪ For Bicep & Terraform ▪https://azure.github.io/Azure-Verified-Modules/ ▪'br/public:avm/res/network/virtual-network:<version>' AZURE VERIFIED MODULES (AVM)
18. TERRAFORM DEMO
19. THANK YOU ☺