Azure storage account firewall rule prevents terraform deployment with azure devops

Question

I want to deploy my terraform infrastructure with an Azure DevOps pipeline, but I'm running into a problem with the storage account firewall. Here an example for a storage account:

resource "azurerm_storage_account" "storage_account" {
  name                              = "mystorageaccount"
  resource_group_name               = "myresourcegroup"
...
  network_rules {
      default_action             = "Deny"
      bypass                     = ["AzureServices", "Logging"]
      ip_rules                   = ["192.1.1.1"]
  }
}

The initial creation of the storage account is successful, but because of the firewall rule all further actions, for example adding a container, fail with a not authorized exception.

Unfortunately adding a bypass rule for "AzureServices" does not work.

The reason I have to add the firewall rule is because of company security guidelines, so I cannot just remove it.

Is there a way to handle storage account firewall rules with azure devops?

Answer 1

For Terraform I would suggest running own agent pools. The agent pools for production environments should be separate from non production and should be located in separate vNets. Then add a network rule to your Storage Acconut to allow access from the agent pool subnet. The same will happen to most of the services when you use Service Endpoints as well.

//EDIT:

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Answer 2

You can utilise a data source to dynamically check your agents IP at apply time.The result of which looks like this:

data "http" "myip" {
  url = "https://ipv4.icanhazip.com"
}

resource "azurerm_storage_account_network_rules" "sample" {
  resource_group_name  = azurerm_resource_group.rg.name
  storage_account_name = zurerm_storage_account.storage.name

  default_action             = "Deny"
  virtual_network_subnet_ids = [azurerm_subnet.subnet.id]
  bypass                     = ["AzureServices", "Logging", "Metrics"]
  ip_rules = [chomp(data.http.myip.body)]
}

You then need to make sure you have removed the IP once you are done, for which I typically just use Remove-AzStorageAccountNetworkRule or as something like this