Deploy an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Cluster With Terraform

In this blog, I will show you how to create an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster with Terraform.

AKS

In the last few blog post, we learned how to create an AKS cluster with ARM, and now it is time to create one with Terraform

I have to say that the Terraform configuration is not complicated and the result will produce a single node cluster with a D2 worker node.

Deploy

To start the deployment, make sure your machine is configured for Terraform and Azure CLI and run the following Azure CLI commands to connect and select the subscription.

az login

 az account set --subscription azure_subscription_name

Configuration

After connecting run Terraform with the following configuration file. Note that the cluster will be created inside a new resource group called TF-AKS.

provider "azurerm" {
features {}
}
resource "azurerm_resource_group" "TF-AKS" {
name = "TF-AKS-resources"
location = "West US"
}

resource "azurerm_kubernetes_cluster" "TF-AKS" {
name = "aks"
location = azurerm_resource_group.TF-AKS.location
resource_group_name = azurerm_resource_group.TF-AKS.name
dns_prefix = "aks"

default_node_pool {
name = "default"
node_count = 1
vm_size = "Standard_D2_v2"
}

identity {
type = "SystemAssigned"
}

tags = {
Environment = "Production"
}
}

output "client_certificate" {
value = azurerm_kubernetes_cluster.TF-AKS.kube_config.0.client_certificate
}

output "kube_config" {
value = azurerm_kubernetes_cluster.TF-AKS.kube_config_raw
}

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