Comments on: Use Terraform to join a new Azure Virtual Machine to a Domain

By: Ashish

Ashish — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 18:09:41 +0000

Thank you, I used to back slash as {\\} as usual, am also a bit confused little here,
The os profile block in terraform requires
computer_name = “${var.computer_name}”
admin_username = “${var.admin_username}”
admin_password = “${var.admin_password}”
How do i pass the user mentioned in the domjoin.tf file as

By: Pixel Robots.

Pixel Robots. — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 16:07:08 +0000

In reply to Ashish. Have you tried with one \ and not two? the provider may have been updated since this post.

By: Ashish

Ashish — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 15:27:20 +0000

Thanks for the article, when i tried execution i got the error
“settings” contains an invalid JSON: invalid character ‘\r’ in string literal
“User”: “xyx.local\\user”,

By: Len

Len — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 03:23:41 +0000

My repo https://github.com/lenvolk/apa_vm_extension_enable/blob/master/domjoin.tf

Error: Missing required argument

on domjoin.tf line 1, in resource “azurerm_virtual_machine_extension” “domjoin”:
1: resource “azurerm_virtual_machine_extension” “domjoin” {

The argument “virtual_machine_id” is required, but no definition was found.

Error: Unsupported argument

on domjoin.tf line 3, in resource “azurerm_virtual_machine_extension” “domjoin”:
3: location = “eastus2” #azurerm_resource_group.this.location

An argument named “location” is not expected here.

Error: Unsupported argument

on domjoin.tf line 4, in resource “azurerm_virtual_machine_extension” “domjoin”:
4: resource_group_name = “ADOTeamServicesAgent” #var.name

An argument named “resource_group_name” is not expected here.

Error: Unsupported argument

on domjoin.tf line 5, in resource “azurerm_virtual_machine_extension” “domjoin”:
5: virtual_machine_name = “vm01” #data.azurerm_virtual_machine.this.id

An argument named “virtual_machine_name” is not expected here.

Error: Reference to undeclared resource

on domjoin.tf line 24, in resource “azurerm_virtual_machine_extension” “domjoin”:
24: depends_on = [“azurerm_windows_virtual_machine.this”]

By: Pixel Robots.

Pixel Robots. — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 10:41:02 +0000

In reply to mo. Hello, What error are you geting?

By: mo

mo — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 19:00:40 +0000

I’ve been unable to get this to work, could you published a worked example with all your files and variable settings?