Create a Linux Virtual Machine in Azure With Terraform

In this blog post, I will show you how to create a Linux virtual machine on Azure with Terrafrom that actully works.

While creating this configuration I have found that the code that is available in many places doesn’t work and not creating an external IP address and when it does it doesn’t attach it to the virtual nic. The same issue happened with the network interface.

In this post, the code will create a Public IP and attach it to the network interface. It will also attach the network security group to the network interface.

The following Terraform configuration with create a VM with the following items:

• Linux Ubuntu 19.4
• SSH Key authentication (In my case, I have created the SSH key before)
• Azure DS1 V2 virtual machine
• Open port 22 for SSH connections

Configuration

Below is the configuration that I have tested and verified that I can login to the VM using my SSH key.

terraform {
  required_providers {
    azurerm = {
      source = "hashicorp/azurerm"
      version = "2.44.0"
    }
  }
}


provider "azurerm" {
  features {}
}

resource "azurerm_resource_group" "ubuntu" {
  name     = "ubuntu-resources"
  location = "australiaeast"
}

resource "azurerm_virtual_network" "ubuntu" {
  name                = "ubuntu-network"
  address_space       = ["10.0.0.0/16"]
  location            = azurerm_resource_group.ubuntu.location
  resource_group_name = azurerm_resource_group.ubuntu.name
}

resource "azurerm_subnet" "ubuntu" {
  name                 = "internal"
  resource_group_name  = azurerm_resource_group.ubuntu.name
  virtual_network_name = azurerm_virtual_network.ubuntu.name
  address_prefixes     = ["10.0.2.0/24"]
}

resource "azurerm_network_interface" "ubuntu" {
  name                = "ubuntu-nic"
  location            = azurerm_resource_group.ubuntu.location
  resource_group_name = azurerm_resource_group.ubuntu.name

  ip_configuration {
    name                          = "internal"
    subnet_id                     = azurerm_subnet.ubuntu.id
    private_ip_address_allocation = "Dynamic"
    public_ip_address_id          = azurerm_public_ip.ubuntu.id
  }
}

resource "azurerm_linux_virtual_machine" "ubuntu" {
  name                = "ubuntu-machine"
  resource_group_name = azurerm_resource_group.ubuntu.name
  location            = azurerm_resource_group.ubuntu.location
  size                = "Standard_ds1_v2"
  admin_username      = "adminuser"
  network_interface_ids = [
    azurerm_network_interface.ubuntu.id,
  ]

  admin_ssh_key {
    username   = "adminuser"
    public_key = file("~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub")
  }

  os_disk {
    caching              = "ReadWrite"
    storage_account_type = "Standard_LRS"
  }

  source_image_reference {
    publisher = "Canonical"
    offer     = "UbuntuServer"
    sku       = "19.04"
    version   = "latest"
  }

}

resource "azurerm_public_ip" "ubuntu" {
  name                = "ubuntu0001publicip1"
  resource_group_name = azurerm_resource_group.ubuntu.name
  location            = azurerm_resource_group.ubuntu.location
  allocation_method   = "Dynamic"

  tags = {
    environment = "Production"
  }
}

resource "azurerm_network_security_group" "ubuntu" {
  name                = "ubuntu-security-group1"
  location            = azurerm_resource_group.ubuntu.location
  resource_group_name = azurerm_resource_group.ubuntu.name

  security_rule {
    name                       = "ssh"
    priority                   = 100
    direction                  = "Inbound"
    access                     = "Allow"
    protocol                   = "Tcp"
    source_port_range          = "*"
    destination_port_range     = "22"
    source_address_prefix      = "*"
    destination_address_prefix = "*"
  }

  tags = {
    environment = "Production"
  }
}
resource "azurerm_network_interface_security_group_association" "ubuntu" {
    network_interface_id      = azurerm_network_interface.ubuntu.id
    network_security_group_id = azurerm_network_security_group.ubuntu.id
}