Terraform Best Practices: Files - Generating backend configuration in a pipeline

tfbp_files-generate_backend_in_pipeleine.yaml

- name: Terraform Set Backend
  id: tf-set-backend
  run: |
    cat > ./backend.tf << EOF
    terraform {
      backend "azurerm" {
        container_name       = "${{vars.TFSTATE_CONTAINER_NAME}}"
        key                  = "${{vars.TFSTATE_KEY}}"
        resource_group_name  = "${{vars.TFSTATE_RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME}}"
        storage_account_name = "${{vars.TFSTATE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT_NAME}}"
        subscription_id      = "${{vars.SA_SUBSCRIPTION_ID}}"
        use_oidc             = true
      }
    }
    EOF

- name: Terraform Init
  id: tf-init
  run: terraform init