Azure quick starts by Roger Doherty v1.6.2

This is a minor feature release.

• terraform-azurerm-vnet-shared
  • Added backup policy for virtual machines
• terraform-azurerm-bench-windows
  • Enabled backup protection for database server vm
  • Enabled backup protection for application server vm

Azure quick starts by Roger Doherty v1.6.1

This is a maintenance release with minor new functionality.

• All quick starts
  • Smoke tested with Terraform azurerm provider v2.40
  • Added support for Terraform v0.14 including:
    • Version locking via .terraform.lock.hcl files
    • terraform output behavior changes impacting bootstrap.sh scripts
  • Added .gitignore support to repo
• terraform-azurerm-vnet-shared
  • Added Terraform v0.14 support for sensitive output variables
    • storage_account_01_key
    • log_analytics_workspace_01_primary_shared_key
  • Added a recovery services vault to be used for Azure virtual machine backups

Azure quick starts by Roger Doherty v1.6

This is a maintenance release with a new and easier to use bootstrap process.

• All quick starts
  • Smoke tested with Terraform azurerm provider v2.39
  • New bootstrap.sh replaces pre-deploy.sh, run-gen-tfvarsfile.sh and gen-tfvarsfile.sh with single script.
• terraform-azurerm-vnet-shared (formerly terraform-azurerm-vnet-hub)
  • Refactored "hub" to "shared services' virtual network to avoid confusion with Azure Virtual WAN hubs
  • Added owner role assignment to resource group for security principals other than the current user
• terraform-azurerm-vm-windows
  • Added support for automatic updates
  • Added system assigned managed identity
  • Refactored data disk configuration
• terraform-azurerm-vm-linux
  • Added system assigned managed identity
  • Refactored data disk configuration
• terraform-azurerm-bench-windows
  • Added support for automatic updates
• terraform-azurerm-vwan
  • Removed deprecated allow_vnet_to_vnet_traffic property

Azure quick starts by Roger Doherty v1.5.3

This is a minor update with bug fixes.

• All quick starts
  • Smoke tested with Terraform azurerm provider v2.37
• terraform-azurerm-bench-windows
  • Database server virtual machine improvements
    • Fixed data disk configuration bugs in post-deployment script that occur when terraform redeploys vm

Azure quick starts by Roger Doherty v1.5.2

This is a feature update with new functionality.

• All quick starts
  • Smoke tested with Terraform azurerm provider v2.36
• terraform-azurerm-bench-windows
  • Database server virtual machine improvements
    • Added support for system assigned managed identity
    • Changed default storage type to StandardSSD_LRS for both OS and data disks
    • Changed naming convention for managed disks to support dependencies in post-deployment script
    • Custom script extension modified to provision an an additional PowerShell script SQL-startup.ps1 for use in post-deployment script
    • Introduce new "keyvault" tag to set up association between the VM and related keyvault for use in post-deployment script
    • Database server post-deployment script reconfigures SQL Server to store tempdb data and log files on ephemeral D: drive
      • Instance metadata service used to retrieve tags and storageProfile data for post-deployment coordination with Azure Resource Manager
      • Managed identity used to authenticate with and retrieve secrets from from keyvault
      • Secrets are used to securely connect to SQL Server and run ALTER DATABASE commands to move tempdb
      • Scheduled task implemented to automatically re-create the tempdb folders on the ephemeral drive after VM is stopped/deallocated

Azure quick starts by Roger Doherty v1.5.1

This is a minor feature update with new functionality.

• All quick starts
  • Tested with Terraform azurerm provider v2.31.1
• terraform-azurerm-vnet-spoke
  • Added a new subnet to be used for Azure SQL Database logical server private endpoint
• terraform-azurerm-sql
  • Added support for Azure SQL Database logical server private endpoint including:
    • Private endpoint in spoke virtual network
    • Private dns zone and associated DNS A record to resolve Azure SQL Database logical server fqdn to private endpoint
    • Linked new private DNS zone to spoke virtual network

Azure quick starts by Roger Doherty v1.5

This is a feature update with new functionality.

• All quick starts
  • Tested with Terraform azurerm provider v2.29.0
• terraform-azurerm-vnet-hub
  • Added an azure automation account and linked it to the log analytics workspace
• terraform-azurerm-sql
  • Added an Azure SQL Database server
  • Added an Azure SQL Database database

Azure quick starts by Roger Doherty v1.4.4

This is a minor update with new functionality.

• All quick starts
  • Tested with Terraform azurerm provider v2.25.0
• terraform-azurerm-bench-windows
  • Refactored "web server" references to "app server"
  • Fixed error checking bugs in run-gen-tfvarsfile.sh and pre-deploy.sh
  • Refactored data disk configuration for additional flexibility / control
  • Added new functionality to database server post-deployment script
    • Improved logging
    • Added a dependency on instance metadata service to query Azure storageProfile
    • Improved data disk initialization and formatting
      • Changed PartitionStyle from MBR to GPT to support larger capacity disks
      • Set the AllocationUnitSize to 65536 (64Kb) based upon performance best practices for SQL Server data and log file I/O

Azure quick starts by Roger Doherty v1.4.3

This is a minor update with new functionality.

• All quick starts
  • Tested with Terraform azurerm provider v2.22.0
• terraform-azurerm-vnet-hub
  • Fixed misspelled output variable storage_container_01_name
  • Refactored format of subnets input variable to a map of maps
• terraform-azurerm-vm-windows
  • Fixed misspelled output variable storage_container_01_name
• terraform-azurerm-vm-linux
  • Fixed misspelled output variable storage_container_01_name
• terraform-azurerm-vnet-spoke
  • Refactored format of subnets input variable to a map of maps
• terraform-azurerm-bench-windows
  • Fixed misspelled output variable storage_container_01_name
  • Refactored format of vm_db_data_disk_config input variable to a map of maps

Azure quick starts by Roger Doherty v1.4.2

This is a minor update with new functionality.

• All quick starts
  • Tested with Terraform azurerm provider v2.21.0
• terraform-azurerm-vnet-hub
  • Removed dependencies on hard coded subnet names
• terraform-azurerm-vnet-spoke
  • Removed dependencies on hard coded subnet names