Azure Policy and Azure Dev Test using Terraform technical question

Question

Hi All,

We are trying to deploy Azure DevTest Lab on our client's Azure subscription using terraform. and we wanted to use Azure policy to avoid deploying VM with the same VM name.
Can this be achieve using terraform variables file and how can we incorporate Azure Policy to the terraform code to achieve this outcome?

Regards,

Charlie Cobre

Answer 1

Hi @Charlie Cobre ,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A! Apologies for the delayed response.

With Azure Policy itself, there is no way to restrict the creation of a VM with same name in a Resource Group. However, the VM name must be unique in a single Resource Group, i.e., the names of resources must be unique in a resource group. If you are looking for a solution to avoid same name VMs at a Resource Group level, there is no need to configure anything extra as such VM creation request would fail anyway.

Regarding Terraform question, I would request you to post the query to Terraform community for help.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

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