Create GitHub Account & Repository

As previously stated, we’ll be using GitHub to store and share our IaC files.

Create GitHub Account

If you don’t already have a GitHub account, create one for free by following the instructions below.

Create GitHub Account

Create Infrastructure Repository

If you intend to reproduce the posts in this blog, you’ll need to create a GitHub repository for you to store your IaC files. Click on the button for instructions on creating a repository. You can name it anything you want, but we’ll be using the name scramoose-infrastructure for these procedures, so you can use that same name if you plan on copying the examples here.

Create New Repository

Take note of the following:

• You’ll probably want to make your repository private since you may decide to put sensitive-ish items in there, like your Azure subscription ID. But never any passwords or secrets (we know not to do that, right?). If you accidentally made it public, see this for information and instructions about making it private.
• Select the Terraform template in the dropdown box for Add .gitignore. If you didn’t do this, I’ll show you how to add it later.

Create a new infrastructure repository on your GitHub account