🚀 Automating Azure Infrastructure with Terraform & Azure DevOps Pipelines 🚀
In the world of cloud infrastructure management, Terraform has become an essential tool for automating resource provisioning. I recently set up an Azure Infrastructure Pipeline using Terraform and Azure DevOps to create and manage Azure resources efficiently and securely.
Here’s how the pipeline is structured to ensure a smooth, validated, and secure deployment process:
🔥 Pipeline Stages 🔥
Terraform Code Scanner using TFSec 🛡️
The first stage runs TFSec to perform a security scan of the Terraform code. This helps us identify any potential vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, or compliance issues before the code is even applied, ensuring we are not introducing any security risks.
Terraform Init & Plan 🏗️
In this stage, we initialize the Terraform configuration using terraform init, followed by terraform plan. This step validates the infrastructure changes and prepares the execution plan, ensuring that the resources are correctly defined and there are no unexpected changes.
Manual Validation ✅
Before we deploy any resources to Azure, the code goes through manual validation. This crucial step ensures that the code, which has been developed in a feature branch, is reviewed thoroughly. The reviewer ensures that only the correct, tested, and secure code is merged into the master branch, reducing the risk of any potential issues.
Terraform Apply 🚀
After manual validation and approval, the final stage executes terraform apply. This step deploys the validated infrastructure to Azure, ensuring that the resources are provisioned as per the approved plan.
💡 Why This Approach Works 💡
Security: TFSec integration ensures that security vulnerabilities are detected early in the pipeline.
Code Quality: The manual validation stage enforces a thorough review of the code before it's merged into master, guaranteeing that only correct code gets deployed.
Automated & Seamless: Terraform handles the provisioning and management of Azure resources automatically, reducing human error and improving deployment speed.
Full Control: By reviewing code in a feature branch and controlling what gets merged into the master branch, we ensure that only validated changes reach production.
This approach makes sure that infrastructure code is secure, well-reviewed, and deployed automatically, resulting in a faster, more efficient workflow with minimal risk.
💬 How do you manage your IaC pipelines? Let me know your experiences or any tools you use to improve the process!
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10moAny love for Branch control? Nice read John 👍