Azure Authentication and Authorization

Terrateam needs permission to access resources in your Azure account.

Credentials are never stored on our servers.

Prerequisites

These instructions require you to run commands from a terminal.

Create a Terrateam Service Principal

A dedicated service principal and client secret is used to access Azure resources.

az login

Get your Subscription ID

az account list

Example output:

[
  {
    "cloudName": "AzureCloud",
    "id": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
    "isDefault": true,
    "name": "PAYG Subscription",
    "state": "Enabled",
    "tenantId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
    "user": {
      "name": "user@example.com",
      "type": "user"
    }
  }
]

The id field is your subscription id

Export your Subscription ID

export SUBSCRIPTION_ID="<subscription-id>"

Set the Subscription ID

az account set --subscription "$SUBSCRIPTION_ID"

Create a terrateam service principal

az ad sp create-for-rbac --role="Contributor" \
--scopes="/subscriptions/$SUBSCRIPTION_ID"

Contributor is an Azure built-in role. This role grants full access to manage all resources, but does not allow you to assign roles in Azure RBAC, manage assignments in Azure Blueprints, or share image galleries.

This role is merely a suggestion. Choose whichever role makes the most sense for your organization.

Example output:

{
  "appId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
  "displayName": "azure-cli-2017-06-05-10-41-15",
  "name": "http://azure-cli-2017-06-05-10-41-15",
  "password": "0000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
  "tenant": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
}

The Azure Terraform provider uses different variable names for the above values. See mapping below.

Record the following to use below:

appID maps to ARM_CLIENT_ID
password maps to ARM_CLIENT_SECRET
tenant maps to ARM_TENANT_ID

Add Credentials to GitHub Secrets

Credentials are securely stored in GitHub Secrets and exposed as obfuscated environment variables in the Terrateam GitHub Action runtime environment.

Export your Terraform organization/repo combination as an environment variable.

For example:

export REPO="<OWNER/REPO>"

Create the Azure Subscription ID GitHub Secret

gh secret --repo "$REPO" set ARM_SUBSCRIPTION_ID --body "$SUBSCRIPTION_ID"

Create the Azure Client ID (appID) GitHub Secret

gh secret --repo "$REPO" set ARM_CLIENT_ID

Create the Azure Client Secret (password) GitHub Secret

gh secret --repo "$REPO" set ARM_CLIENT_SECRET

Create the Azure Tenant ID (tenant) GitHub Secret

gh secret --repo "$REPO" set ARM_TENANT_ID

Azure Terraform Provider

The Azure Terraform provider (opens in a new tab) will detect and use the ARM_* GitHub Secrets automatically set in the Terrateam GitHub Action runtime environment.

AWS GCP