Getting started with Terraform and Kubernetes on Azure AKS

Playground to learn Terraform on Azure and provision an AKS cluster in one command.

You can find the full tutorial on the Learnk8s blog.

Getting started

Install the Azure CLI.

You can find detailed instructions on how to install it on the official website.

Sign up for an Azure account, if you don't own one already. You will receive USD200 in free credits.

You can link your Azure CLI to your account with:

az login

And you can list your accounts with:

az account list

Make a note now of your subscription id.

If you have more than one subscription, you can set your active subscription with az account set --subscription="SUBSCRIPTION_ID". You still need to make a note of your subscription id.

Create the Service Principal with:

az ad sp create-for-rbac \
  --role="Contributor" \
  --scopes="/subscriptions/SUBSCRIPTION_ID"

The previous command should print a JSON payload like this:

{
  "appId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
  "displayName": "azure-cli-2017-06-05-10-41-15",
  "name": "http://azure-cli-2017-06-05-10-41-15",
  "password": "0000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
  "tenant": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
}

Make a note of the appId, password and tenant.

Export the following environment variables:

export ARM_CLIENT_ID=<insert the appId from above>
export ARM_SUBSCRIPTION_ID=<insert your subscription id>
export ARM_TENANT_ID=<insert the tenant from above>
export ARM_CLIENT_SECRET=<insert the password from above>

You should be able to provision the cluster in Terraform.

Change your current directory to:

• <01-getting-started>
• <02-aks>
• <03-aks-helm>
• <04-templated>
• <05-aks-acr>

to start provisioning your infrastructure with Terraform.