Azure Arc onboarding configuration reference for Lokomotive

Introduction

Azure Arc offers simplified management, faster app development, and consistent Azure services.

With Azure Arc, you can:

Centrally manage a wide range of resources, including Windows and Linux servers, SQL server, Kubernetes clusters and Azure services .
Establish central visibility in the Azure portal and enable multi-environment search with Azure Resource Graph.
Meet governance and compliance standards for apps, infrastructure and data with Azure Policy .
Delegate access and manage security policies for resources using role-based access control (RBAC) and Azure Lighthouse .
Organise and inventory assets through a variety of Azure scopes, such as management groups, subscriptions, resource groups and tags.

This component onboards or removes a Lokomotive cluster with Azure Arc.

Prerequisites

Microsoft Azure account with permissions to create ResourceGroup and register an application with the the Microsoft Identity Platform.

Detailed instructions and execution steps are mentioned in the How-to-guide .

Configuration

Azure Arc onboarding component configuration example:

# azure-arc-onboarding.lokocfg

component "azure-arc-onboarding" {
  application_client_id = "29348jdw-9g23-9kot-21sa-opw129831c2k"
  application_password  = "foobar"
  tenant_id             = "s38kjs4k-x123-89h2-7f21-89uffo109921"
  resource_group        = "azure-arc-lokomotive-resource"
  cluster_name          = "mercury"
}

Attribute reference

Table of all the arguments accepted by the component.

Argument	Description	Default	Type	Required
`application_client_id`	Application ID that uniquely identifies your application within the Azure identity platform.	-	string	true
`application_password`	A string value generated that your application can use to identity itself.	-	string	true
`tenant_id`	Unique ID of the Azure Active Directory tenant.	-	string	true
`resource_group`	Name or Id of the Azure resource group.	-	string	true
`cluster_name`	Name of the Lokomotive cluster as provided in the cluster configuration.	-	string	true

Applying

To apply the Azure Arc onboarding component:

lokoctl component apply azure-arc-onboarding

Deleting

To destroy the component:

lokoctl component delete azure-arc-onboarding --delete-namespace