You need a public Domain Name at any Domain Hosting provider. This is used to make the environment your own. This enables you to access your environment using your own Domain Name. This can be any exisiting one. We only need to create two DNS CNAME Records, which acts like a subdomain. So no worry, we are not going to fuck up anything at your base domain.
Terraform creates a small Linux VM for you which acts as reverse proxy. It gets a public IP address and a public DNS hostname assigned by Azure.
With the variable TF_VAR_reversproxy_dns_hostname in your .env file you can control the public DNS hostname of the Linux VM. You must choose any unique name.
Unique reverse proxy dns hostname in the .env file, which is a copy of sample.env
export TF_VAR_reversproxy_dns_hostname="playground873637"If you deploy your infrastructure in azure region germanywestcentral then the domain part for your Linux VM will be .germanywestcentral.cloudapp.azure.com and the resulting public full qualified domain name of the Linux VM will be playground873637.germanywestcentral.cloudapp.azure.com
Examples for other regions:
- West Europe: .westeurope.cloudapp.azure.com
- North Europe: .northeurope.cloudapp.azure.com
- East US: .eastus.cloudapp.azure.com
For example, your environment should be accessible at playground.microhouse.de
microhouse.de a domain you own and control. You need to create the
following 2 DNS records at your domain hosting provider:
playground CNAME playground873637.germanywestcentral.cloudapp.azure.com
*.playground CNAME playground873637.germanywestcentral.cloudapp.azure.com
So now you should exactly understand what goes into the variable TF_VAR_public_hosting_domain in your .env file, which is a copy of sample.env
export TF_VAR_public_hosting_domain="playground.microhouse.de"