Building Blocks Automation Infrastructure

Source code & Installation

The source code of this kit module can be found here

Run the following command to install the kit module:

collie kit import azure/buildingblocks/automation

This documentation is intended as a reference documentation for cloud foundation or platform engineers using this module.

The biggest problem is resource group deletion. We need to be able to CRUD exclusively owned RGs in customer subscriptions. That means we need delete RG permission. But that allows deleting every resource.

Approaches that don't work to limit them

• restrict deletion with denyAction unfortunately a dead end since Policy Definitions can't filter on principal ids, so the policy would deny deletion of all RGs
• assigning only create RG permission on MG, then assign Owner role on created RG to allow deletion. Problem is that terraform destroy will first destroy the role assignment, then attempt to delete the RG (which is now missing permission). terraform prevent_destroy on the role assignment does not work because this fails terraform plans invoked with terraform destroy.

The only alternatives I see

• customers must supply the RGs, so that the SPN does not have to own their lifecycle and does not need the delete RG permission
• Azure Policy/ABAC becomes powerful enough one day to restrict this (especially: denyAction)

Requirements

No requirements.

Modules

No modules.

Resources

Name	Type
azuread_app_role_assignment.buildingblock-directory	resource
azuread_application.buildingblock	resource
azuread_service_principal.buildingblock	resource
azuread_service_principal_password.buildingblock	resource
azurerm_management_group_policy_assignment.buildingblock_access	resource
azurerm_policy_definition.buildingblock_access	resource
azurerm_resource_group.tfstates	resource
azurerm_role_assignment.buildingblock_deploy	resource
azurerm_role_assignment.tfstates_engineers	resource
azurerm_role_definition.buildingblock_plan	resource
azurerm_storage_account.tfstates	resource
azurerm_storage_container.tfstates	resource
random_string.resource_code	resource
time_rotating.key_rotation	resource
azuread_application_published_app_ids.well_known	data source
azuread_service_principal.msgraph	data source
azurerm_subscription.current	data source

Inputs

Name	Description	Type	Default	Required
location	Azure location for deploying the storage account	string	n/a	yes
scope	n/a	string	n/a	yes
service_principal_name	n/a	string	n/a	yes

Outputs

Name	Description
client_id	n/a
client_secret	n/a
container_name	n/a
documentation_md	n/a
principal_id	n/a
resource_group_name	n/a
storage_account_name	n/a
subscription_id	n/a
tenant_id	n/a