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/*Tested Ok example of Azure VM deployment*/

variable "prefix" {
  default = "tfvmex"
}

/*Create a resource group in a region*/
resource "azurerm_resource_group" "main" {
  name     = "${var.prefix}-resources"
  location = "West US 2"

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Terraform Example of using boot_diagnostics for Azure virtual Machine
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- include this in the vm resource bloc:

```
.
.
.
boot_diagnostics {

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/*Tested Ok example of Azure VM deployment*/

variable "prefix" {
  default = "tfvmex"
}

/*Create a resource group in a region*/
resource "azurerm_resource_group" "main" {
  name     = "${var.prefix}-resources"
  location = "West US 2"

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AzureRM Recovery Services Vault
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Key Questions before deploying?
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1. What is it (purpose, and architecture)?

	1.1 what is it: 

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AzureRM Recovery Services Vault Lab Notes

Question: How to enable AzureRM RSV for a virtual machine at deployment time?

1. integrating arm template with linux vm terraform

• we do this so we can include the rsv parameters (i.e "enable backups")

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Terraform puzzles and problems

Problem #1

Statement:

• Given a default map variable, how do we override individual values in the map when such individual values are defined?
• Other than using "map merge" ?

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Overview
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This is a set of notes I kept resulting in development of a terraform module wrapper to configure windows DNS.

(Original gist location: https://gist.github.com/1de3be6a95400bce427008e04e53e26f)


Objective:
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Useful facts and information from a discovery of Azure Cloud

1. Resource Groups ==================

ref: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/resource-group-overview#resource-groups

1.1 Resource Group Properties

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Ansible Tower Evaluation

Pre-evaluation opinion:

• Another piece of GUI wrapping that might as well be replaced by a generic CI/CD system like Jenkins/GitLab/Teamcity(!)/BambooCI (pick your poison)
• Only worth deploying if your infra team never uses any of the above CI/CD servers and knows nothing of building pipelines. Otherwise just redundant.

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My list of current pending questions to resolve
===============================================


Question #1

How to manage secrets in terraform code?
Does it have something like ansible vault?

Answer: