Use azure storage as backend for terraform state

Overview

Let’s see how to use Azure Storage account as backend in Terraform.

Steps

1. Create new resource group as terraform_resource_group if you don’t have using Azure cli

az group create --name terraform_resource_group --location eastus

2. Create new storage account as terraform_backend on terraform_resource_group resource group

az storage account create --resource-group terraform_resource_group --name terraform_backend --sku Standard_LRS --encryption-services blob

3. Create new blob container on created storage account as my_service_name

az storage container create --name my_service_name --account-name terraform_backend

4. Configure azure providers in terraform

terraform {
  required_version = ">=1.0"

  required_providers {
    azapi = {
      source  = "Azure/azapi"
      version = "1.14.0"
    }
    azurerm = {
      source  = "hashicorp/azurerm"
      version = "3.113.0"
    }
  }
}

provider "azurerm" {
  skip_provider_registration = "true"
  features {}
}

5. Finally, configure azure backend in terraform

terraform {
  backend "azurerm" {
    resource_group_name  = "terraform_resource_group"
    storage_account_name = "terraform_backend"
    container_name       = "my_service_name"
    key                  = "terraform.tfstate"
  }
}