Create Multiple Linux VMs In Azure With Terraform

This blog post will show you how to create two Linux Ubuntu Server 19.04 virtual machine on Microsoft Azure Terraform.

Challenges

If you do a google search on creating more than one Linux VM with Terraform with Azure, you will get a lot of result without any clear understanding of how to do it.

This challenging task is the fact that each VM needs a dedicated Public IP address, NIC and a configuration that links all the configuration together. After researching the topic, I have come up with a working code that will create two Ubuntu VMs with a public IP address for each one.

This post builds on the code I have shown here on how to create a single Linux VM on Azure with SSH keys.

Configuration

The full code is shown below. The configuration will create a new resource group and will handle the end to end configuration. Make sure you create your SSH key before.

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

  required_providers {
    azurerm = {
      source  = "hashicorp/azurerm"
      version = ">= 2.26"
    }
  }
}

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" {
  count               = 2
  name                = "UBUNTU-NIC-${count.index}"
  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          = element(azurerm_public_ip.ubuntu.*.id, count.index)

  }
}

resource "azurerm_linux_virtual_machine" "ubuntu" {
  name                = "UBUNTU-VM-${count.index}"
  count               = 2
  resource_group_name = azurerm_resource_group.ubuntu.name
  location            = azurerm_resource_group.ubuntu.location
  size                = "Standard_ds1_v2"
  admin_username      = "adminuser"
  network_interface_ids = [
    element(azurerm_network_interface.ubuntu.*.id, count.index)
,
  ]
  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" {
  count               = 2
  name                = "UBUNTU-VM-NIC-0${count.index}"
  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" {
    count = 2
    network_interface_id      = element(azurerm_network_interface.ubuntu.*.id, count.index)
    network_security_group_id = azurerm_network_security_group.ubuntu.id
}

Don’t forget to visit the Terraform category for more blog posts on the topic.