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Microsoft Terraform

The VSCode Microsoft Terraform extension is designed to increase developer productivity authoring, testing and using Terraform with Azure. The extension provides terraform command support and resource graph visualization.

Important Note

⚠️ CloudShell integration is currently unavailable in this version of the extension. All Terraform commands will run in your local integrated terminal.

Requirements

This extension requires:

• Terraform - Required for executing terraform commands
• GraphViz - Required for the visualize feature

NOTE: Please make sure these requirements are in your PATH environment variable.

Features

This extension supports the following features:

• Terraform commands: init, plan, apply, validate, refresh and destroy
• Visualize the terraform module
• Suggest resources, properties, and values for those properties
• On-hover documentation
• Integration with Azure Export for Terraform to Export Azure Resources As Terraform Blocks
• Integrated survey for user feedback

Guides

This extension provides the following guides to help you get started:

Language features for AzureRM provider

1. Input azurerm_ in a .tf file to see example suggestions for azurerm resources.

1. Hover over an azurerm resource or property to see its documentation.

1. It provides value suggestions for properties of azurerm resources. For example, if you type sku_name = , it will suggest available values for the sku_name property of the azurerm_automation_account resource.

Language features for AzAPI provider

Completion of allowed azure resource types when input type in azapi resources

Completion of allowed azure resource properties when input body in azapi resources

Completion of required properties for any discriminated objects.

Show hint when hover on azapi resources and diagnostics to indicate schema errors as you type.

Paste resource JSON to the terraform configuration, it will convert to azapi configuration.

Paste ARM template to the terraform configuration, it will convert to azapi configuration.

Migrate from AzureRM provider to AzApi provider. More details can be found in Guide to migrate AzureRM resources to AzAPi in Module

Export Azure Resources As Terraform

This feature allows you to export existing Azure resources as Terraform configuration blocks using Azure Export for Terraform. This helps you migrate existing Azure resources to Terraform-managed infrastructure.

1. Open the Command Palette (Command+Shift+P on macOS and Ctrl+Shift+P on Windows/Linux).

2. Search for and select the command Microsoft Terraform: Export Azure Resource as Terraform.

3. Follow the prompts to select the Azure subscription and resource group containing the resources you want to export.

1. Select the azurerm provider or the azapi provider to export the resources.

2. The extension will generate the Terraform configuration blocks for the selected resources and display them in a new editor tab.

Generate Required Permissions

This feature help you generate the required permissions for AzureRM resources in Terraform configuration.

Select some azurerm resources in your .tf file, then you can see a lightbulb icon appear next to the selected resources. Click on the lightbulb icon to see the option to generate required permissions. After clicking, the extension will generate the required permissions and display them in a new editor tab.

This feature also supports generating the missing permissions for the selected resources. Please ensure that you have logged in to Azure using the az login command before using this feature.

A step-by-step guide can be found here.

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