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I get this error running a "terraform plan". I authenticated terraform to Azure via CLI. I have set up an account subscription. How can I solve this problem?

Error: building AzureRM Client: please ensure you have installed Azure CLI version 2.0.79 or newer. Error parsing JSON result from the Azure CLI: launching Azure CLI: exec: "az": executable file not found in %PATH%.

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The error says that az is not found. So for this type of error simple way out is logging-in into Azure like below:

az login

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Then the error goes:

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And then you can check your subscriptions once like below:

 az account list

And following login step i got resolved my problem. And also check if you are using latest Azure Cli version. And also try the below command:

az account get-access-token

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RithwikBojja
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Terraform cloud needs an Azure access since your plan is running on the cloud.
First, you need to create a service principal for azure

az ad sp create-for-rbac --role="Contributor" --scopes="/subscriptions/SUBSCRIPTION_ID"

See this tutorial: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/tutorials/azure-get-started/azure-build
After service principal is created, you get this in response:

{
  "appId": "...", - client_id
  "displayName": "...",
  "password": "...", - client_secret
  "tenant": "..."  - tenant_id
}

Then you can provide azure access for terraform using one of these methods:

  1. Add Workspace variables via terraform cloud GUI. They will be treated as environment variables.
ARM_CLIENT_ID="..."
ARM_CLIENT_SECRET="..."
ARM_SUBSCRIPTION_ID="..."
ARM_TENANT_ID="..."
  1. Or include them into your .tf file.
provider "azurerm" {
  features {}
    
  subscription_id = '...'
  client_id       = '...'
  client_secret   = '...'
  tenant_id       = '...'
}

Hovever it's not a good idea to sotre sensitive data in config. That's why you may use method #3:

  1. Declare variables in your .tf file and pass them via command line
provider "azurerm" {
  features {}
    
  subscription_id = var.subscription-id
  client_id       = var.client-id
  client_secret   = var.secret
  tenant_id       = var.tenant-id
}

terraform apply -var client-id='...' -var tenant-id='...' -var...

See this answer for details: https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/using-the-azure-provider-with-terraform-cloud/18177/2

Oleg Slobodin
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