# Microsoft Azure

> Microsoft Azure is the Microsoft public cloud, which Terraform and OpenTofu manage with the azurerm provider.

- Source: https://www.itwonderlab.com/azure/
- Published: 2026-09-13
- Updated: 2026-09-13
- Author: Javier Ruiz Jiménez (https://www.javierruizjimenez.com/)
- Site: IT Wonder Lab (https://www.itwonderlab.com/)

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**Azure** offers virtual machines, networks, databases and Kubernetes (AKS). Resources live in **resource groups** inside **subscriptions**. Terraform authenticates with the Azure CLI, a service principal or workload identity, much like AWS does with IAM.

### Key concepts

- **Resource group**: a container for related resources.
- **azurerm provider**: the [provider](https://www.itwonderlab.com/terraform-provider/) for Azure.
- **State backend**: an Azure storage account.

### Learn it

Follow [Terraform on Azure](https://www.itwonderlab.com/terraform-azure-getting-started/).