Terraform State File in Azure

This is sort of a chicken and egg situation where the egg has to come before the chicken. The state file is important and it maintains your current state of all your Azure resources created via Terraform. There are many ways to get started, but this is my approach.

az login

az group create --name my-resource-group --location westus

az storage account create --resource-group my-resource-group --name terraformstorageacct1

az storage container create --name tfstate-westus --acount-name terraformstorageacct1

Set your backend in your main.tf or whatever you named your file (Terraform doesn't care what a .tf file is named). The key below is what your state file will be stored as in your container:

terraform {
  backend "azurerm" {
    resource_group_name  = "my-resource-group"
    storage_account_name = "terraformstorageacct1"
    container_name       = "tfstate-westus"
    key                  = "myfirst.tfstate"
  }
}

After creating the necessary Azure resources and declaring the backend, you can now initialize your backend and migrate a state file. If you have a state file in your local directory, you will be prompted to migrate it to your new Azure Storage container:

terraform init

Terraform State File in Azure

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Set your backend in your main.tf or whatever you named your file (Terraform doesn't care what a .tf file is named). The key below is what your state file will be stored as in your container:

After creating the necessary Azure resources and declaring the backend, you can now initialize your backend and migrate a state file. If you have a state file in your local directory, you will be prompted to migrate it to your new Azure Storage container:

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Login to Azure, create a resource group, storage account and storage container via the Azure CLI (API):

Set your backend in your main.tf or whatever you named your file (Terraform doesn't care what a .tf file is named). The key below is what your state file will be stored as in your container:

After creating the necessary Azure resources and declaring the backend, you can now initialize your backend and migrate a state file. If you have a state file in your local directory, you will be prompted to migrate it to your new Azure Storage container: