Understanding Terraform workflows using Azure DevOps
It is very important to understand how we can use Terraform with any continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) tool because you know that these days, DevOps is in demand, and almost 90% of companies are using a DevOps approach. So, in order to understand Terraform with CI/CD tools, we will look at Azure DevOps tools.
Let's try to understand how we can keep our code in the Azure Repo and then use Azure Pipelines to perform the deployment of the infrastructure. In our example, we are going to use the Azure cloud platform, but you can use Azure DevOps with other major cloud providers such as GCP, AWS, and so on.
Have a look at the following diagram, which provides an overview of using Terraform with CI/CD workflows:
The following steps show you how to use Azure DevOps Service for infrastructure deployment in Azure using Terraform...