The Azure IaaS Book Of News – December 2022
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Referencing Private Endpoint IP Addresses In Terraform
It is possible to dynamically retrieve the resulting IP address of an Azure Private Endpoint and use it in other resources in Terraform. This post will show you how.
Scenario
You are building some PaaS resources using Private Endpoints. You have no idea what the IP addresses are going…
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