Infrastructure as Code Tools Creating one VM in Azure

Before choosing one of the IaC tools, you can taste them by having all samples code to do the same task. As most IaC tools are declarative languages so not significantly different between junior and senior engineers, how understandable and readable they are is very important because indeed IaC alternates the portal GUI visibilities with the code.

Terraform (Yaml)

provider "azurerm" {
  features {}
}

resource "azurerm_resource_group" "example" {
  name     = "example-resource-group"
  location = "westus2"
}

resource "azurerm_virtual_network" "example" {
  name                = "example-vnet"
  address_space       = ["10.0.0.0/16"]
  location            = azurerm_resource_group.example.location
  resource_group_name = azurerm_resource_group.example.name
}

resource "azurerm_subnet" "example" {
  name                 = "example-subnet"
  address_prefixes     = ["10.0.1.0/24"]
  virtual_network_name = azurerm_virtual_network.example.name
  resource_group_name  = azurerm_resource_group.example.name
}

resource "azurerm_network_interface" "example" {
  name                = "example-nic"
  location            = azurerm_resource_group.example.location
  resource_group_name = azurerm_resource_group.example.name

  ip_configuration {
    name                          = "example-config"
    subnet_id                     = azurerm_subnet.example.id
    private_ip_address_allocation = "Dynamic"
  }
}
resource "azurerm_virtual_machine" "example" {
  name                  = "example-vm"…