So my first blog post here was mainly there as the first idea I had had for a blog. Logically I probably should have started with this one which details the journey I have been on to onboard my shiny new domain, ADO env and azure account in to Terraform. My aim here is to not let it all descend in to a GUI nightmare and to codify all the things because, well, IaC and automation are bloody brilliant.
Tricky Parts
Much as I love Azure I have a slight frustration with it in terms of being heavily GUI driven. Overall it seems much more forgiving than AWS but it does sometimes get in the way a bit. The prime example of this is with Subscriptions. When you onboard a shiny new trial you automagically have a subscription spat out for you. This is nice but it has a horrible name - which needs 10 minutes to sync changing - and it also does not have an alias which is a key bit of metadata for terraform to handle managing this subscription.