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Copper Contributor

Oct 01, 2021

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Automation for Installation of Software's Post VM Deployment

Hi All, We are doing assessment for migration of on-premise Infra and its services to Azure cloud. We have on-premise self service portal powered by VMware vRealize Automation/Orchestrator to ins...

Ankit Kotnala
Oct 04, 2021
Yes the first 2 can be

1. https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/azurerm/latest/docs/resources/virtual_machine_extension
and you can use below publisher and type for custom script :
publisher = "Microsoft.Compute"
type = "CustomScriptExtension"

2. https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/azurerm/latest/docs/resources/automation_dsc_configuration

3. You can also use Ansible with Terraform but that is something I don't have experience on .

Ankit Kotnala

Brass Contributor

Oct 03, 2021

There are several ways to do it, first two are native Azure solutions

1. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/run-scripts-in-vm

2. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/extensions/dsc-overview

3. A thirdparty tool like Ansible, chef or puppet

sc2317

Copper Contributor

Oct 03, 2021

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestion. Can these be used with terraform ?

Ankit Kotnala
Brass Contributor
Oct 04, 2021
Yes the first 2 can be

1. https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/azurerm/latest/docs/resources/virtual_machine_extension
and you can use below publisher and type for custom script :
publisher = "Microsoft.Compute"
type = "CustomScriptExtension"

2. https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/azurerm/latest/docs/resources/automation_dsc_configuration

3. You can also use Ansible with Terraform but that is something I don't have experience on .