Terraform-provider-azurerm: Feature Request: Recovery Services Backup Policies / Site Recovery

[philipstreet-hiscox]

We would like to automate the configuration of Backup and Site Recovery for VMs, a la https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/azure-to-azure-tutorial-enable-replication.

This should include the configuration of Resource Group, Network, Storage and Availability Sets.

[JamesDLD]

I will be very interested too on this feature, we currently use the not recommended solution "azurerm_template_deployment"

[JamesDLD]

For info, if it can help I published here how I create a recovery vault through the Terraform resource "azurerm_template_deployment" : https://github.com/JamesDLD/terraform
I will add soon how to enable backup for a VM.

[tombuildsstuff]

hi @philipstreet-hiscox @JamesDLD

Thanks for opening this issue :)

Support for provisioning Recovery Services has been added in #995 which will ship as part of the next release of the Azure Provider. There's a separate issue tracking adding Virtual Machines to a Recovery Vault - which I'm going to close this in favour of: https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-azurerm/issues/1143

Thanks!

[tombuildsstuff]

Adding some additional context after a little investigation: it appears this'd need to be a resource per "Type" - we should be able to start with IaaS VM's and add additional types based on demand? This is available in the SDK: https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/blob/4de511fba6f4c9d4266d37a7b0d142abb976fa8e/services/recoveryservices/mgmt/2017-07-01/backup/models.go#L3572

[philipstreet-hiscox]

My specific scenario is configuring Replicated items (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/azure-to-azure-tutorial-enable-replication#enable-replication).

What I've done so far is Terraform the additional resources required to configure Azure-to-Azure VM replication, i.e. Availability Sets, NSGs, Recovery Services Vault & Storage Accounts, and then manually configure (via the Portal) the VM Replication (as described in the above link).

So, what I would like to be able to do in Terraform is (depending on what is supported):

• Configure replication settings for a VM, specifying target Resource Group, Availability Set, Virtual Network, Replica Managed Disks, and Cache Storage
• Configure Replication policy, including using an existing Replication policy or configuring a new one (Name, recovery point, app consistency snapshot frequency), multi-VM consistency with Replication group details (name, machines)
• Extension settings (Update settings)

[tombuildsstuff]

👋

Support for Recovery Services Policies and Recovery Services Protected VM's shipped in v1.17 of the AzureRM Provider. You can upgrade to this by updating the version number specified in the Provider block (as shown below) then by running terraform init -upgrade:

provider "azurerm" {
  version = "=1.18.0"
}

Thanks!

[silvesterc]

Hi There, can this be used to set up replication rather than backups? From the documentation, it seems only backups are possible.

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