Terraform on Windows Server 2025

Terraform is a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. Terraform can manage existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions

Terraform is created by Hashicorp, developed to deploy infastructure as code. This image is maintained by Cloud Infrastructure Services. Terraform makes it easy to re-use configurations for similar infrastructure, helping you avoid mistakes and save time.

Configuration files describe to Terraform the components needed to run a single application or your entire datacenter. Terraform generates an execution plan describing what it will do to reach the desired state, and then executes it to build the described infrastructure. As the configuration changes, Terraform is able to determine what changed and create incremental execution plans which can be applied.

Terraform is used to create, manage, and update infrastructure resources such as virtual machines, network switches, containers, physical machines and so much more. Almost any infrastructure type can be represented as a resource in Terraform.

Terraform Features

• Deploy infrastructure as code into Azure, on-premises, or other cloud platforms
• Native integration with Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and Azure APIs
• Support for Azure Active Directory authentication
• Automated provisioning of VMs, storage, networking, and PaaS resources
• State management with remote backends (Azure Storage, Terraform Cloud)
• Modular infrastructure with reusable templates and modules
• Policy enforcement and compliance with Azure Policy
• Automated scaling and lifecycle management
• Secrets management via Azure Key Vault
• Integration with Azure DevOps for CI/CD pipelines
• Multi-cloud and hybrid deployments from a single Windows host
• Execution plans - Terraform has a "planning" step where it generates an execution plan. The execution plan shows what Terraform will do when you call apply
• Resource Graph - Terraform builds a graph of all your resources, and parallelizes the creation and modification of any non-dependent resources
• Change Automation - Complex changesets can be applied to your infrastructure with minimal human interaction
• Use within CI/CD DevOps pipelines
• Write automated testing
• Integrate with the many provider APIs available

Use Cases for Terraform on Windows in Azure

• Automated deployment of complex Azure environments (IaaS, PaaS, networking)
• Infrastructure as Code for repeatable, versioned cloud setups
• Hybrid cloud orchestration (on-premises + Azure)
• Dev/test lab provisioning for Windows-based teams
• Self-service portals for internal users
• Disaster recovery and environment cloning
• Compliance automation and audit trails
• Integration with existing Windows-based management tools and scripts

Support / Documentation

Follow the post setup instructions on our website - Setup Terraform on Azure

Disclaimer: Terraform is a registered trademark of HashiCorp, Inc and is licensed under Mozilla Public License v2. This offering is not affiliated with or endorsed by HashiCorp, Inc. This image is maintained by Cloud Infrastructure Services. No warrantee of any kind, express or implied, is included with this software. Use at your risk, responsibility for damages (if any) to anyone resulting from the use of this software rest entirely with the user. The author is not responsible for any damage that its use could cause.