karlospn / deploy-az-resource-using-terraform-when-not-available-on-azurerm-provider

This repository contains an example about how you can deploy an Azure resource using Terraform when it is not available in the AzureRM official provider

How to deploy an Azure resource using Terraform when it is not available in the AzureRM official provider

Everyone who has worked long enough with Terraform in Azure has been in the position of wanting to deploy a resource that's not available on the official Azure Terraform provider.
The same situation also happens when trying to enable a feature of an existing resource and that feature is missing from the Azure Terraform provider.

Right now there are 3 options available when you want to create or update an Azure resource but this resource doesn't exist on the AzureRM Terraform Provider:

• Using the null_resource alongside with the local-exec provisioner to execute a script that uses the Azure CLI or the Azure Az Powershell Module.
• Using the azurerm_resource_group_template_deployment from the AzureRM provider to deploy an ARM Template.
• Using the AzAPI provider.

This repository contains a couple of examples for every option.

Important: Using any of these options to provision or update a resource using Terraform should be a last resort and it makes sense only when the AzureRM provider doesn't have an implementation for the service we want to create or update.

Folder structure

• /when_creating_a_new_resource folder contains:
  • An example of how to create an Azure App Configuration using the AzApi provider.
  • An example of how to create an Azure App Configuration using the azurerm_resource_group_template_deployment resource + an ARM Template.
  • An example of how to create an Azure App Configuration using the null_resource + local-exec provisioner + Az CLI shell script.

I'm aware that you can create an Azure App Configuration using the azurerm_app_configuration resource available on the AzureRM provider, but this is just an example of how you can provision an Azure resource using Terraform without the AzureRM provider.

• /when_updating_an_existing_resource folder contains:
  • An example of how to enable the SFTP support on an existing Azure Blob Storage using the AzApi provider.
  • An example of how to enable the SFTP support on an existing Azure Blob Storage using the azurerm_resource_group_template_deployment resource + an ARM Template.
  • An example of how to enable the SFTP support on an existing Azure Blob Storage using the null_resource + local-exec provisioner + Az CLI shell script.