Terraform: Get User Principal Name (UPN) of User Running Deployment without Entra ID Read Permissions

I has a scenario where I needed to configure an Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server to use Entra ID (Azure AD) authentication and add the Entra user running the HashiCorp Terraform deployment as the Azure PostgreSQL Administrator using the azurerm_postgresql_flexible_server_active_directory_administrator Terraform resource. Generally, you would use the azuread_user data resource in…

16/02/2025 Article Bloggers Chris Pietschmann

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