Azure Terraform Infra as Code Deployment via Custom PowerShell with Azure DevOps Pipelines – Part 2 – Execute Plan with Approval

In the previous post “Azure Terraform Infra as Code Deployment via Custom PowerShell with Azure DevOps Pipelines – Part 1 – Create Plan” we have discussed how to generate a terraform plan targeting Azure Infrastructure deployment and upload it to an Azure Git repo. The solution is implemented instead of using terraform task for Azure DevOps, which is available with Microsoft DevLabs extension due to it is having a prerequisite of Azure resource group, storage etc. as described in the post “Why Azure DevOps Terraform Extension Task by Microsoft DevLabs to Deploy Infra to Azure Does Not Work for Me”. As the second part of previous post, let’s explore the steps require to approve the terraform plan and get the plan executed with Azure DevOps pipeline relying on a state kept in Azure Git repo instead of a storage blob, which is eliminating the need of having manually created Azure resources.