provider/azurerm: currently lacking load balancer resource

[pmcatominey]

Hi,

I'm creating this issue as a feature request and central discussion point for load balancer support in the azurerm provider.

There are a number of PR's open, proposing solutions:

• provider/azure: added load balancer support. #4343
• A simplifed load balancer resource for AzureRM #6429
• [WIP] : Azure Load Balancer with separated resource #6467

The latter two are attempts to providing the resource in different ways to the first. It would be good to hear thoughts on what solution is preferred and get the ball rolling again.

Personally I am in favour of having separated resources to model in particular the probes and rules, at least until it is possible to pass multiple sets into a module of the same type.

Regards

[jen20]

Hi @pmcatominey! I agree that in the short term (until nested resources are implemented) that we should model each load balancer component as an independent resource. One of the team will pick up one of open proposals at some point soon now that 0.7 is out the door.

[edevil]

Should we follow this ticket or #8130 for the status of load balancer support in the AzureRM module?

[zachgersh]

hey @jen20 - could we just pour a tiny bit more time or even just merge #6467? It would seem that this is the split resource approach that you were wanting (and I agree is a better approach). It would be super disappointing if we had to wait even longer to get even rudimentary LB support for azure as a whole handful of these PRs have been open for quite a few months without a definitive direction. cc @stack72

As a side note - I would be happy to contribute to fixing any other issues that are needed to get that LB support merged.

[stack72]

Hi @pmcatominey

This is going to be seen through to completion by @jen20 and I in #9199

Paul

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