Stages of deploying Terraform scripts on Azure
There are 3 stages to Azure provisioning and deployment. Each stage is executed separately in each phase of their respective subdirectories.
Stage 1: Base stage
Stage 2: Addons stage
Stage 3: Deployment stage
The below mentioned points lets you know what actions are taken in each deployment stage.
Base stage
Creates Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster.
Creates container registry.
Creates roles.
Addons stage
Installs Cert Manager
Installs Trust Manager
Deployment stage
Loads the Cloud Scale container images to local repository.
Tag and push the container images and Helm chart to ACR.
Deploys Cloud Scale Technology using Helm chart.
Note:
Terraform also supports single-node deployment, using single_node.tfvars as the input file.