Deploying Front Door Premuim Using Terraform

Question

We are trying to deploy Azure Front door using terraform. However as there is no code block where you can define the SKU of the front door, terraform deploys an "Azure Front Door Classic" by default.

How can we deploy an Azure Front door with Azure Front Door Premium SKU using terraform?

TF Registry for Front Door- https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/azurerm/latest/docs/resources/frontdoor

Answer 1

Hello @Kaushalendra Kumar ,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A Platform. Thank you for reaching out & hope you are doing well.

I understand that you would like to create Premium SKU Azure Front Door via Terraform or Bicep or ARM template and need the module reference for it.

I couldn't find Terraform module for Azure Front Door Standard/Premium and there is no "SKU_name" attribute in azurerm_frontdoor module, so I believe it is not supported yet.
Reference : https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/azurerm/latest/docs/resources/frontdoor

I found an issue reported for this in the Hashicorp module within GitHub and looks like it is still in progress as some resources are yet to be refactored to support Azure Front Door Standard/Premium SKU.
Refer : https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-azurerm/issues/16344

In the mean time, you could deploy Azure Front Door Premium using ARM template or Bicep following the below link:
https://github.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates/tree/master/quickstarts/microsoft.cdn/front-door-standard-premium/

The above GitHub article has both azuredeploy.json (ARM) and main.bicep (Bicep) files that you can use to create a Standard/Premium Front Door.
In the provided templates, it is using Standard SKU, you can replace it with Premium SKU as below:

ARM:

"skuName": {  
      "type": "string",  
      "defaultValue": "Premium_AzureFrontDoor",  
      "allowedValues": [  
        "Standard_AzureFrontDoor",  
        "Premium_AzureFrontDoor"  
	  

Bicep:

@description('The name of the SKU to use when creating the Front Door profile.')  
@allowed([  
  'Standard_AzureFrontDoor'  
  'Premium_AzureFrontDoor'  
])  
param skuName string = 'Premium_AzureFrontDoor'  

For more Azure Resource Manager deployment model templates for Front Door Standard/Premium, please refer:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/frontdoor/front-door-quickstart-template-samples?pivots=front-door-standard-premium

Kindly let us know if the above helps or you need further assistance on this issue.

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Answer 2

Suppose this is the new frontdoor resource, it is created as a new resource : https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/azurerm/latest/docs/resources/cdn_frontdoor_profile