Section 4 - Further Steps

Now that you have come to the end of this exercise, there is still alot more to learn.

You may have noticed that you built your terraform resources from you local machine. This is far from how things are done in live environments.

As your next steps, you could

Create a new Git repo using the code base as a start
Update the configuration so that it does not try to destroy and re-create everything with every terraform plan. The key is the local.prefix variable
Create a new Azure DevOps project under the Platform Operations organisation.Check out this blog which has good content of Azure DevOps
Link your Git repo to Azure so that subsequent commits trigger a build
Set up backend state file for your project
Create a 2 subnets with a /26 mask and use one as the virtual machine subnet

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