Managing infrastructure as code is a crucial practice in modern IT operations, and Terraform is a powerful tool to achieve this. In this blog post, we will walk through the process of pushing user data cloud config to an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS machine in Azure using Terraform. We’ll highlight the key components of the Terraform code and explain the templating mechanism used to inject user data.
Setting Up the Virtual Machine
We start by defining our Azure virtual machine using the azurerm_linux_virtual_machine
resource. This resource is configured to deploy an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS machine.