Support for subscription scoped deployments in azurerm_template_deployment

[landro]

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Description

Right now azurerm_template_deployment requires a resource group name.
Arm templates are not necessary deployed at the resource group level, but also at the subscription level:

budgets
deployments - for nested templates that deploy to resource groups.
eventSubscriptions
peerAsns
policyAssignments
policyDefinitions
policySetDefinitions
remediations
resourceGroups
roleAssignments
roleDefinitions
scopeAssignments
supportPlanTypes
tags

Support for this should be added.

New or Affected Resource(s)

• azurerm_template_deployment

References

• https://docs.microsoft.com/nb-no/azure/azure-resource-manager/templates/deploy-to-subscription?view=azure-cli-latest#supported-resources

[pearcec]

It looks like there are a few other options as well, such as tenant level, managed group. I would want to check with the maintainers on direction. My initial thoughts are to have a separate resource type since the SDK and Azure has a different REST API. Right now the azurerm_tempalte_deployment requires resource_group_name which would be tricky to change to optional.

[ghost]

This has been released in version 2.30.0 of the provider. Please see the Terraform documentation on provider versioning or reach out if you need any assistance upgrading. As an example:

provider "azurerm" {
    version = "~> 2.30.0"
}
# ... other configuration ...

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