Terraform deployment with Github actions

In this blog I will share the template to deploy and manage azure infrastructure with terraform

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Lets say I have following azure infra code written in terraform and I would like to deploy this from github actions workflow

terraform {
  required_providers {
    azurerm = {
      source  = "hashicorp/azurerm"
      version = "=3.64.0"
    }
    azuread = {
      version = "=2.36.0"
    }
  }
}


provider "azurerm" {
  features {
    resource_group {
     prevent_deletion_if_contains_resources = false
   }
    key_vault {
      purge_soft_delete_on_destroy = true
    }
    
    api_management {
      purge_soft_delete_on_destroy = true
    }
  }
}

resource "azurerm_resource_group" "rg" {
  name      = "rg-demo-01"
  tags      = {}
  location  = "uksouth"
}

Github Action/Workflow: You can define the pipeline in github action inside your repository.

To create an action you need to create a yaml (or yml) file inside you repository (.github/workflow/myaction.yml or .github/workflow/deployment.yaml)

Terraform deployment pipeline:

Here is the pipeline code:

Triggers:

first you are going to add a trigger point of pipeline

name: 'Terraform Deployment'

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